REPORT: Trump administration says it will fly illegal alien back to U.S. after judge’s ruling

May 29, 2025

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From CBS News: The federal government is working to secure a charter flight to return a man who was removed from the U.S. back to America so he can have proper due process proceedings, the Justice Department said in court documents filed Wednesday.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ordered the man, only known by the initials O.C.G., to be returned to the United States after he found that necessary due process steps in his removal proceedings were “ignored” by the Trump administration.

O.C.G.’s attorneys argued that he has no criminal history and sought asylum in the United States after multiple violent attacks against him in his native country of Guatemala.

In March 2024, O.C.G. entered the United States illegally and was deported. After making it back to the United States again last year, he presented himself to Border Patrol for asylum proceedings. An immigration judge found in February 2025 that O.C.G. would face serious harm if he were sent back to Guatemala and ordered a “withholding of removal” that barred deportation back to his home country.

Two days after the immigration judge’s February decision, O.C.G. says he was placed on a bus and removed without due process to Mexico, where his attorneys said he was previously held for random and raped during his second attempt to get to the United States. He submitted evidence at his immigration hearing of his experiences in Mexico, and as a result the immigration judge said that O.C.G. could not be removed to a country other than Guatemala without additional due process.

The report further states that after OCG was deported to Mexico, Mexican authorities transferred him to Guatemala, where he is still “in hiding.”

Trump administration says it will fly migrant back to U.S. after judge rules his deportation “ignored” due process. https://t.co/Q27f1Nhn2K

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 29, 2025