A federal judge on Saturday said that when the Trump administration appears to be “end” a US court order, it has now banned five African immigrants from being deported by sending them to Ghana first.
US District Judge Tanya Chukkan ordered the government to detail Ghana’s attempt to violate domestic court orders and not send immigrants elsewhere on Saturday night. One of the plaintiffs had already been shipped from Ghana to his hometown of Gambia, where a US court ruled that he would not be sent, ACLU’s Lee Gererund told Chukkan.
Justice Department Elianis Perez admitted to telling Chakkan in court on Friday that Ghana had vowed that it would not happen. However, she argued that Chetkan had no power to control how other countries handle decoy. She said the Supreme Court ruled this summer that even if the administration had no opportunity to raise the fear of torture, they could continue to send immigrants to their country of origin.
However, Gererundt argued that he could not reclaim Maryland man Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s case, despite a court order banning it, compared to the Trump administration’s mistaken deportation to El Salvador. Abrego Garcia has returned to the United States after several courts directed the administration to “promote” his return. There he is currently fighting the trafficking charges and another Trump administration pushing him to deport him.
“This appears to be a concrete plan to end these duties,” Chatkan said of the government that will ship migrants to Ghana. “What is the government going to do? And don’t say we don’t have control over Ghana, as I know.”
Chukkan later submitted a declaration detailing the attempt to issue an order to the administration until 9pm in the eastern part of the country to prevent other migrants from being improperly sent from Ghana to their home country.
Riccardi writes for the Associated Press.
