Judge says Trump cannot deport noncitizens to third countries without due process
A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens to countries other than their places of origin without due process.
Judge Brian Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Friday issued an injunction that bars the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizen to a country not explicitly mentioned in his or her order of removal without first allowing them to raise concerns about his or her safety.

"Defendants argue that the United States may send a deportable alien to a country not of their origin, not where an immigration judge has ordered, where they may be immediately tortured and killed, without providing that person any opportunity to tell the deporting authorities that they face grave danger or death because of such a deportation," Murphy wrote. "All nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Assistant Solicitor General of the United States, Congress, common sense, basic decency, and this Court all disagree."
The ruling throws a roadblock in the Trump administration's frequent policy of removing noncitizens to countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Panama even if the noncitizens lack an order of removal to those countries.
-ABC News' Peter Charalambous







