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Judge says Trump administration is making ‘an end run around’ | |
federal court orders in deportation case | |
By Associated Press | |
Updated: | |
7:47 PM EDT, Sat September 13, 2025 | |
Source: AP | |
A federal judge on Saturday said it appeared the Trump administration | |
was making “an end run around” US court orders prohibiting five | |
African immigrants to be deported to their home countries by sending | |
them first to Ghana, which was poised to then relocate them to | |
countries where they could face torture or death. | |
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the government to detail | |
Saturday night how it was trying to ensure Ghana would not send the | |
immigrants elsewhere in violation of domestic court orders. One of the | |
plaintiffs has already been shipped from Ghana to his native Gambia, | |
where a US court found he could not be sent, Lee Gelernt of the | |
American Civil Liberties Union told Chutkan. | |
The case is the latest legal challenge to the Trump administration’s | |
practice of sending people to countries other than their own, including | |
El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica and several African nations, as | |
President Donald Trump has been aggressively cracking down on | |
undocumented immigrants. | |
Elianis Perez of the Department of Justice acknowledged that she told | |
Chutkan in court on Friday that Ghana had pledged that wouldn’t | |
happen. But she argued that Chutkan had no power to control how another | |
country treats deportees. She noted the US Supreme Court this summer | |
ruled the administration could continue sending immigrants to countries | |
they are not from, even if they hadn’t had a chance to raise fears of | |
torture. | |
Gelernt, however, compared the case to that of , whom the Trump | |
administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador despite a court order | |
prohibiting it, then argued it couldn’t get him back. After multiple | |
courts directed the administration to “facilitate” his return, | |
Abrego Garcia eventually came back to the US, where he is now fighting | |
human trafficking charges and another Trump push to deport him. | |
“This appears to be a specific plan to make an end run around these | |
obligations,” Chutkan said of the administration shipping the | |
immigrants to Ghana. “What does the government intend to do? And | |
please don’t tell me you don’t have any control over Ghana because | |
I know that.” | |
Chutkan later issued an order giving the administration until 9 p.m. ET | |
to file a declaration detailing how it was trying to ensure the other | |
immigrants weren’t improperly sent to their home countries from | |
Ghana. | |
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