A federal judge on April 28 requested answers from the U.S. government about deportations that took place after he handed down a preliminary injunction that imposed new requirements.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said during a hearing in Boston that he needed answers to determine whether the government violated his order by deporting four Venezuelans from Guantanamo Bay to El Salvador after he had barred officials from deporting illegal immigrants to a country that is not their native country without giving them an opportunity to show that they would face danger if deported there.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have said that the deportations were carried out by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and that DHS did not direct the Pentagon to remove the illegal immigrants. Since the Pentagon is not a defendant in the case, Murphy’s preliminary injunction was not violated, officials said in court filings….