A federal judge judged on Wednesday that the deportation of non-citizens in Libya without regular procedure would violate his existing legal order, after sources said that the White House had discussed such plans.
Lawyers representing a group of migrants have filed an emergency motion to prevent their expulsion to Libya or Saudi Arabia, citing both press reports and migrants who allegedly allegedly prepared for withdrawal from Libya or Saudi Arabia.
Sending non-citizens in Libya or Saudi Arabia without giving them a chance to raise concerns about their security “clearly defies the preliminary injunctions of this Court” regular procedure.
On Wednesday, in his ordinance, judge Murphy said that all the “allegedly imminent moves” to a country like Libya or Saudi Arabia would violate the preliminary injunction that it delivered last month.
“If there is a doubt – the court sees no – the allegedly imminent moves, as indicated by the press agencies and, as applicants, would seek to corroborate with class accounts and public information, would clearly violate the ordinance of this Court,” wrote Murphy judge about the potential deportations of Saudi Arabia or Libya, an Arab Mines Arab Mines Removal and armed conflict. “”
“Any member of the class who is moved to Libya faces a high probability of imprisonment followed by torture and even a disappearance or death,” said the request for applicants. “Indeed, given the Dossier of Libya of Human Rights, it is inconceivable that the members of the class of other countries never accept to retire in Libya, but to even seek the protection of the transmission of Libya.”
To support their request for an emergency prescription, lawyers representing non-citizens included a series of exhibitions showing the race that took place during the last day while lawyers were trying to determine if one of their customers was bound for Libya. According to lawyers, Laotian, Vietnamese and Philippine immigrants are at risk of moving.
A detainee attends a biblical conference at the prison of the terrorism confinement center in Tecoleca, El Salvador on April 4, 2025.
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According to two lawyers whose correspondence has been included as parts, their customers have been informed that they would be returned to Libya and were invited to sign documents accepting deportations. When one of the men and a group of other migrants refused to sign the document, they were handcuffed in separate parts “in order to bring them to sign it,” said a lawyer.
“ICE [Immigrations and Customs Enforcement] I did not inform him that he had the right to request a reasonable interview for fear, and Ice did not give me an opinion of their intention to send him back to Libya, in clear violation of the ordinances of the district court, “wrote another lawyer.
Reports that the administration is considering deportations in Libya are following the government’s expulsion by several hundred members of alleged migrant gangs in Salvador as part of an agreement of $ 6 million that the Trump administration concluded with President Salvadoran Nayib Bukele to shelter Cecot Mega-Prison prisoners.
Lawyers representing the non-citizens said they had contacted the Trump administration to confirm whether members of the class were on the flights to Libya and Saudi Arabia but had not heard.
Asked on Wednesday if the United States would send migrants to Libya, President Donald Trump told journalists: “I don’t know, you will have to ask internal security.”
The secretary of the Ministry of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, who was questioned on the potential levels Wednesday morning before the comments of Trump, said: “I cannot confirm anything”.
The Government of National Unity of Libya has denied any link with the relationships concerning the expulsion of migrants in this country, affirming in a press release that the government affirms that it rejects the use of Libyan territory as a destination for the expulsion of migrants without its knowledge or its consent “.
ABC News contacted the government competitor in Libya, the government of national stability, to comment.
Officials of the Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to a request for comments from ABC News.
