Trump's 'third country' deportations are illegal, judge rules
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U.S. Judge Brian Murphy said the Department of Homeland Security must stop dropping immigrants in countries that aren't their own.
A recent Department of Homeland Security policy that allows immigrants to be deported to countries that aren't their own could put them in danger and is unlawful, a federal judge ruled.
The department must not remove migrants to so-called "third countries," U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said in his ruling on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The practice, Murphy said, amounts to dropping people off in "parts unknown" and, "as long as the Department doesn’t already know that there’s someone standing there waiting to shoot ... that’s fine."
"It is not fine, nor is it legal," Murphy said in the ruling, citing a U.S. law that prevents the government from removing someone to a country where their "life or freedom would be threatened" because of their "race, religion, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion."
"These are our laws, and it is with profound gratitude for the unbelievable luck of being born in the United States of America that this Court affirms these and our nation’s bedrock principle: that no 'person' in this country may be 'deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,'" Murphy wrote.
He further criticized the Department of Homeland Security's removal policy for failing to require immigration officers to give a person notice or an opportunity to object before removing them to "an unfamiliar and potentially dangerous country" as long as the government has gotten "assurances" that they won't be exposed to torture or persecution.
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