US judge orders Trump administration to return wrongly deported gay man

Judge says Guatemalan's removal to Mexico, despite fears of being harmed there, lacked any semblance of due process'

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday night to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico, in spite of his fears of being harmed there, and who has since been returned to Guatemala.

The man, who is gay, had applied for asylum in the US last year after he was attacked twice in homophobic acts of violence in Guatemala. He was protected from being returned to his home country under a US immigration judge's order at the time, but the Trump administration put him on a bus and sent him to Mexico instead.