A federal judge on April 23 ordered the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan native from El Salvador to the United States, ruling the deportation of the man violated a settlement that had been reached in a class action case.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed the Venezuelan man, who is referred to in court documents under the pseudonym Cristian, to El Salvador in March, according to court filings.
“This court will order Defendants to facilitate Cristian’s return to the United States so that he can receive the process he was entitled to under the parties’ binding Settlement Agreement,” U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher wrote in a 19-page decision….