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President Donald Trump listens to a reporter’s question before signing an executive order in the White House’s Oval Office in Washington, Monday, March 31, 2025 (Pool via AP).

Federal officials are proactively working to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man whom a judge determined was “wrongfully” deported to Mexico. This action represents one of the most notable efforts by the administration to secure the return of a deportee considered improperly removed.

The Justice Department’s status report filed Wednesday reveals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Phoenix communicated with the man’s attorneys, known in court documents as “O.C.G.,” last weekend. This follows the directive from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy on Friday to facilitate the man’s return, criticizing the “banal horror” of his removal.

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In the filing, DOJ lawyers announced they were complying with that directive.

“[ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations] Phoenix is currently working with ICE Air to bring O.C.G. back to the United States on an Air Charter Operations (ACO) flight return leg,” they wrote, adding that a “Significant Public Benefit Parole packet” had been prepared and was sent to Homeland Security Investigations for further approval. That would allow O.C.G. to remain in the U.S. for a certain period of time based on “urgent humanitarian reasons or a significant public benefit,” according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

On Friday, Murphy, a Joe Biden appointee based in Massachusetts, had demanded an update on the status of O.C.G.’s retrieval within five days — Wednesday. However, locating the man could prove difficult as he is in hiding in Guatemala, according to court documents, having chosen to return to his country instead of being detained indefinitely in Mexico.

O.C.G. has said that, while on his way north to the U.S. in 2024, he was kidnapped and raped in Mexico. Once he entered the U.S. and was detained, he told immigration officials he feared persecution in Guatemala because he is gay. A judge subsequently granted a withholding order in February barring him from being returned to his home country.

The Department of Homeland Security saw Mexico as a natural next option, but Murphy maintained that the only available evidence was that O.C.G. was not given enough of an opportunity to state why he was at risk of harm in Mexico.

“No one has ever suggested that O.C.G. poses any sort of security threat,” Murphy wrote in his order. “In general, this case presents no special facts or legal circumstances, only the banal horror of a man being wrongfully loaded onto a bus and sent back to a country where he was allegedly just raped and kidnapped.”

In his order, Murphy also confirmed that “it is ‘the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.””

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