Trump admin working to fly back Guatemalan migrant erroneously deported from US
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The Trump administration appears to be complying for the first time with a federal judge's order to return a migrant from a foreign country to the United States.
The update is significant and marks the first known instance that the Trump administration appears to be complying with a federal court's order to return to the U.S. a migrant who was deported in what administration officials have since acknowledged to be the result of erroneous information. Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI, and other national news.
The news comes after U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts ruled last week that the man was deported to Mexico without due process and ordered that the administration secure his return to the United States.
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