A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the U.S. government must return a gay Guatemalan asylum-seeker deported under a controversial Trump policy. Judge Brian E. Murphy issued a preliminary injunction in favor of O.C.G., who had previously been granted protection due to the violence he faced in Guatemala. He was deported despite having testified about his experience, and the judge highlighted misleading conduct from immigration officials. The case emphasizes systemic issues in the treatment of asylum-seekers, particularly those from the LGBTQ+ community.
This case presents... the banal horror of a man being wrongfully loaded onto a bus and sent back to a country where he was allegedly just raped and kidnapped.
The only evidence before the Court, therefore, is O.C.G.'s uncontroverted assertion that he was given no notice of his transfer to Mexico and no opportunity to explain why it would be dangerous to send him there.
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