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Judge says deporting migrants to Libya would violate his order

The White House has discussed deporting migrants to Libya, sources say.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that deporting noncitizens to Libya without due process would violate his existing court order, after sources said the White House has discussed such plans.

Lawyers representing a group of migrants filed an emergency motion seeking to prevent their deportation to Libya or Saudi Arabia, citing both press reports and firsthand accounts from migrants who alleged they were actively being prepared for removal to Libya or Saudi Arabia on military aircraft.

Sending noncitizens to Libya or Saudi Arabia without giving them a chance to raise concerns about their safety "blatantly defies this Court's preliminary injunctions," lawyers representing the migrants argued in an emergency motion filed in federal court in Boston, where U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy last month issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens to any country other than their place of origin without due process.

In his order Wednesday, Judge Murphy clarified that any "allegedly imminent removals" to a country like Libya or Saudi Arabia would violate the preliminary injunction he issued last month.

"If there is any doubt -- the Court sees none -- the allegedly imminent removals, as reported by news agencies and as Plaintiffs seek to corroborate with class-member accounts and public information, would clearly violate this Court's Order," Judge Murphy wrote about potential deportations to Saudi Arabia or to Libya, an Arab country located in North Africa that the U.S. State Department has advised American citizens not to travel to due to "crime, terrorism, unexploded landmines, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict."

"Any Class Member who is removed to Libya faces a strong likelihood of imprisonment followed by torture and even disappearance or death," the plaintiffs' motion said. "Indeed, given Libya's human rights record, it is inconceivable that Class Members from other countries would ever agree to removal to Libya, but instead would uniformly seek protection from being removed to Libya."

To support their application for the emergency order, lawyers representing the noncitizens included a series of exhibits showing the scramble that played out over the last day as the attorneys sought to determine if any of their clients were bound for Libya. According to the lawyers, Laotian, Vietnamese and Philippine immigrants are at risk of removal.

According to two lawyers whose correspondence was included as exhibits, their clients were informed that they would be removed to Libya and were asked to sign documents agreeing to the deportations. When one of the men and a group of other migrants declined to sign the document, they were allegedly handcuffed in separate rooms "in order to get them to sign it," according to one lawyer.

"ICE [Immigrations and Customs Enforcement] did not advise him that he has a right to request a reasonable fear interview, nor did ICE provide me with any notice of their intention to remove him to Libya, in clear violation of the district court's orders," another lawyer wrote.

Reports that the administration is considering deportations to Libya follow the government's deportation of several hundred alleged migrant gang members to El Salvador as part of a $6 million deal the Trump administration made with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to house detainees at the CECOT mega-prison there.

Lawyers representing the noncitizens said they reached out to the Trump administration to confirm whether any class members are onboard flights to Libya and Saudi Arabia but had not heard back.

Asked earlier Wednesday if the United States will be sending migrants to Libya, President Donald Trump told reporters, "I don't know, you'll have to ask Homeland Security."

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was asked about potential plans Wednesday morning prior to Trump's comments, said, "I can't confirm anything."

Libya's Government of National Unity has denied any connection to reports regarding the deportation of migrants to that country, saying in a statement that "the Government affirms that it rejects the use of Libyan territory as a destination for the deportation of migrants without its knowledge or consent."

ABC News has reached out to Libya's competing government, the Government of National Stability, for comment.

Officials with the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-deporting-migrants-libya-violate-order/story?id=121567596

This same judge had already ruled he couldn't send them to countries other than their origin without due process almost a month ago but it appears the judge didn't think it had sunk into the bedrock........

Judge blocks administration from deporting noncitizens to 3rd countries without due process

It blocks removing noncitizens to countries other than their place of origin.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-blo...ens-3rd-countries-due/story?id=120951918

Seen it, but thanks.

potentially... BYEEEE

So now he's creating illegals who weren't illegal before. Murica! Freedumb!

Just so we're clear....

We are going to punish/deport people who chose to follow the rules and come here legally (side note: this program requires a sponsor that would be accountable for the immigrant brought here under the program). In this case, we are deporting legal immigrants instead of illegal aliens.

Another side note: this program was modeled after Uniting for Ukraine, which is a program that offers same/similar benefits (temporary immigration to USA pending background checks and an acceptable US-citizen-sponsor) for Ukrainians displaced by Russia's invasion. U4U was also suspended indefinitely by the Trump administration in January.



That's a lot of words to say that MAGA/Republicans are no longer targeting illegal aliens/criminals. With this, they are targeting foreigners that are following our laws in order to come to the US for safety, but also to work and contribute with guardrails in place. If this was happening back when my grandparents were fleeing Hungary when the Russians came rolling back in, I would not be here. There's also a significant portion of Cleveland residents that wouldn't be here (Cleveland has the second largest group of Hungarians (not including Hungary itself) in the world).

No, now those legals who were illegally made as such are now legally made illegal again.

Unless I'm missing something, there's nothing illegal about anything in your statement. The program that was started up that allowed them to come here was legal (and dare I say, made some sense), and the EO that canceled the program was also legal.

This is exactly the reason why EO's, in general, aren't a suitable substitute for actual laws.

Now all you need to do is show how the program that made them legal was illegal because it wasn't. You do realize just saying something doesn't make it true, right? Just because you and trump don't like something doesn't make it illegal.

Make America White Again… y’all can’t see that? Damn the constitution, damn the laws of the land, special snowflakes want to special snowflake… you can tell by watching who praises this crap.

Trump sees everything in Black, White, and Brown. Bringing in White South Africans with an offer of expedited citizenship, while revoking protected status and legal immigration for brown and black folk. And anybody who thinks being born here is all that is saving you better think again.

Dumbest ever, check.
Most inept ever, check.
Most bigoted ever, check.
Most irrational ever, check.
Most corrupt ever, check.
Most hated ever, check.
Most laughed at by the world ever, check.
Most out of touch ever, check.
Most disgusting ever, check.

Trump has accomplished a lot in his first 4 months and it’s all negative.

You’d think that having the House, the Senate and the oval, rebtards could actually get their fascist laws passed in congress. But no they break laws to drive their fascist agendas down our throats.

So you think that them breaking the law makes it ok for us to break our own laws?

No offense intended but that's the dumbest thing I've read today....

That argument goes both ways. If we don't respect our own laws, why should they respect our laws?

we have a damn fool at the top that has no respect.. It's starts there.

7-2

Get them out!!!

I pray you escort them.

They should not have been here in the first place.

So they should all leave and white people from South Africa should be welcomed? The only difference is the complexion of their skin.

Nobody replied the last time I asked this. You seem pretty fired up about the decision, so I want to hear your honest opinion.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5406775/supreme-court-trump-chnv-program


The immigrants* that are going to be deported by this decision... why do you want them gone so bad? Technically, these people aren't immigrants. They are allowed to be here temporarily (the article calls them parolees) under the program because they passed a background check and secured a sponsor (a US citizen that basically vouches for them) and are fleeing danger in their home country to come here and work. The point is they are vetted, have a US citizen that will vouch for them, and followed the process correctly to come here. Why we are so eager to remove law-abiding folks confuses me.

I want an answer because my parents were both able to come to this country under a similar program (fled Hungary when the Russians came back to crush rebellion following WW2). That program is why so many people with Hungarian ancestry came to settle in Cleveland (and Toronto).

There's also some hypocrisy at work here, considering how Melania came to the US and earned pay even though she wasn't supposed to. Would love to know MAGA's thoughts on all this.

It’s interesting you mention that. I remember many families in my grade school in Cleveland who fled Romania and Hungary under those circumstances. They were good families and hard working people.

Many that trump wants to kick out are the same kinda people, Hard working.. Just not from eastern Europe. Did you see the article about W.VA minors that are upset because some of those folks work in the mines and are really needed. They say that's not what they voted for.....