Judge blocks Trump administration from fast-tracking deportations

Justice department appeals, calling the district judge an 'unelected activist'

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Family members of Venezuelans who are held in a high-security prison in El Salvador after being deported from the U.S. protest in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 24. © Reuters

March 29, 2025 14:23 JST

BOSTON (Reuters) -- A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from deporting migrants to countries with which they had no relationship without giving them a chance to raise claims that they would face persecution or torture if sent there.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued a nationwide temporary restraining order designed to protect migrants subject to final orders of removal from being swiftly deported to countries other than those that had already been identified during immigration proceedings.