A Guatemalan who last February was mistaken to Mexico is back in the United States thanks to the ruling of a judge who ordered the administration of President Donald Trump to return it, because, according to the judicial resolution, the expulsion was unfair, the news chain reported CNN.
CNN He published in his web portal that the legal team of the Guatemalan confirmed his return to the United States and explained that this fact marks the first time that the Trump administration returns to a migrant after the order of a judge.
The television network indicated that the Guatemalan uses the pseudonym OCG and that he landed in the United States on Wednesday, where he contacted a member of his legal team, which challenges the measures of the Trump administration to send migrants to countries where they do not have links, as in this case, Mexico.
It is expected that OCG be put into custody of the Department of National Security, although it is not yet clear where it will be stopped.
According to the newspaper The countryfederal judge Brian Murphy ordered the Trump administration to take the Guatemalan back, since his expulsion “lacked any hint of due process.”
After being arrested by ICE agents, OG was transferred on a bus, along with about twenty migrants, to Mexico, where, given the possibility of staying detained for months while his application for asylum was resolved, he asked to be deported to Guatemala, where he remained hidden.
The country He points out that neither option was safe for OG, since, because he was gay, he suffered persecution and violence in both countries.
The Spanish media points out that the first time he tried to enter the United States, in February 2024, he was deported almost immediately to Guatemala; However, a month later he tried again and, upon arriving in Mexico, he was raped and kidnapped.
On that occasion, according to the publication, he was not released until his sister paid a rescue, according to his statement in the courts.
All these background were considered by the judge to order his return to the United States.