Guatemalan deportee arrives in US after judge orders Trump to facilitate return

Reuters · Nate Raymond · last updated June 5, 2025 – 7:00 AM

A Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico despite stating he feared being persecuted there was flown back to the United States on Wednesday after a judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return.

Judges have directed U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to help return several migrants to the country because they were wrongly deported, and the man’s arrival appeared to mark the first time one of those migrants has been able to come back.

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