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7. Lawyers scramble to stop deportation flight to Libya they say 'blatantly' defies court order
Wed May 7, 2025, 04:37 PM
May 7

trump's DOJ is trying to deport persons to foreign countries to avoid having to give them due process or release such persons when they lose the litigation. Libya is a horrible and unsafe place to send detainees

Lawyers scramble to stop deportation flight to Libya they say ‘blatantly’ defies court order

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Mike Walker (@newnarrative.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T20:11:00.506Z




https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/07/trump-libya-deportation-flight-00333968

The Trump administration is on the verge of “blatantly” defying a court order by deporting immigrants from Asia to the war-torn African nation of Libya, attorneys for the immigrants said Wednesday.

Citing “alarming reports” in the media and accounts from some of their clients, the lawyers filed an emergency motion seeking to block a military flight that appeared to be on the verge of taking off from the U.S.

The lawyers say their clients — nationals of Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines — are at risk of being sent to Libya in defiance of an earlier court order prohibiting deportations to so-called third-party countries without notice and a chance to make a legal challenge. They’re asking Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy to quickly prevent any such flights and ensure the Trump administration is complying with his earlier order. They also asked Murphy to block flights to potential “stopover” nations like Saudi Arabia.

Murphy ruled last month that any immigrant expelled to a country “not explicitly provided for on the alien’s order of removal” be given written notice and a “meaningful” chance to contest their deportation to that country if they fear they may face torture or persecution there.

The administration’s apparent plan to quickly expel a group of immigrants to Libya transgresses that earlier order, the immigrants’ lawyers said.

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