A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that deporting non -citizens to Libya without due process would violate their existing court order, after the sources said the White House has discussed such plans.
The lawyers representing a group of migrants presented an emergency motion that seeks to avoid deportation to Libya or Saudi Arabia, citing press reports and first -hand accounts of migrants who claimed that they were being actively prepared for the extraction of Libya or Saudi Arabia in military planes.
Send the non -citizens to Libya or Saudi Arabia without giving them the opportunity to raise concerns about their safety “blatantly challenges the preliminary precautionary measures of this court,” the lawyers who represent the migrants argued in an emergency motion presented in the federal court in Boston, where the United States district judge Brian Murphy last month issued a preliminary injury to The noitation of the nocita to which it is not from the administration of the nocita to the nocita to the nocita to the nocita to which it does not emerge from the administration of the nocita to the notite of the administration of the non. process.
In his order on Wednesday, Judge Murphy clarified that any “supposedly imminent move” to a country like Libya or Saudi Arabia would violate the preliminary judicial order issued last month.
“If there is any questions, the court does not see any, the supposedly imminent removals, as reported by the news agencies and as the plaintiffs seek to corroborate with class class and public information accounts, would clearly violate the order of this court,” Judge Murphy wrote about possible deportations to Saudi Arabia or Liby American citizens did not travel to those who should not travel to those due to US citizens who are owed to those due to the United States. Terrestrial mines, civil disturbances, kidnapping and armed conflict. “
“Any member of the class that is transferred to Libya faces a strong probability of imprisonment followed by torture and even disappearance or death,” said the demanding motion. “In fact, given Libya’s human rights history, it is inconceivable that the members of the class of other countries agree to the removal of Libya, but instead they would seek protection to be removed from Libya.”
To support their application for the emergency order, lawyers representing non -citizens included a series of exhibitions that show the fight that took place during the last day when lawyers tried to determine if any of their clients were destined for Libya. According to lawyers, immigrants Laosis, Vietnamese and Filipinos run the risk of retiring.
An inmate attends a biblical conference in the prison of the Center for Confinement of Terrorism, in Tecoluca, El Salvador on April 4, 2025.
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According to two lawyers whose correspondence was included as exhibitions, their clients were informed that they would be transferred to Libya and were asked to sign documents according to deportations. When one of the men and a group of other migrants refused to sign the document, they were supposedly handcuffed in separate rooms “to sign it,” according to a lawyer.
“ICE [Immigrations and Customs Enforcement] He did not advise him to have the right to request a reasonable fear interview, nor ICE provided me with any notice of his intention to take him to Libya, in clear violation of the orders of the District Court, “said another lawyer.
The reports that the administration is considering deportations to Libya follows the deportation of the government of several hundred and alleged members of migrant gangs to El Salvador as part of a $ 6 million agreement that the Trump administration made with the Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to house the detainees in the mega prison of CECOT there.
The lawyers who represent the non -citizens said they communicated with the Trump administration to confirm whether the class members are flights aboard Libya and Saudi Arabia, but they had not had news.
When asked early on Wednesday if the United States will send migrants to Libya, said President Donald Trump to journalists: “I don’t know, he will have to ask national security.”
The secretary of the National Security Department, Kristi Noem, who was asked about the possible plans on Wednesday morning before Trump’s comments, said: “I cannot confirm anything.”
The Government of National Unity of Libya has denied any connection with the reports on the deportation of migrants to that country, saying in a statement that “the Government states that it rejects the use of the Libyan territory as a destination for the deportation of migrants without their knowledge or consent.”
ABC News has communicated with the Competitor of Libya, the national stability government, for comments.
The officials of the National Security Department did not respond immediately to a request for comments from ABC News.
