US judge blocks plan to deport migrants to Libya

The US Judge in Boston ordered the Trump administration to deport migrants to Libya, saying that it “clearly violates” a preliminary order that provides their right to the proper process.

The order came after two US officials reported BBC Partner CBS News that the US could soon start deporting migrants in Libya as part of the immigration repression.

In response to the deportation report, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbebe wrote in a statement on X that his country refused to “become a migrant deportation under any reason.”

Responding to the same report, the US State Department’s press stated that he would not discuss the issue.

Representatives who talked to CBS – who asked for anonymity said that the US military could fly migrants to the North African country this week.

This step is probably controversial – Libya has been silenced in the conflict for more than ten years, and the US State Department advises Americans not to travel from factors such as crimes, terrorism and civil unrest.

Immigration lawyers quickly moved on Wednesday to prevent Trump administration, asking the Massachusetts judge to issue a temporary unit.

“Many reliable sources say that flights are being prepared immediately to the US, which transports the class members to remove Libya,” the lawyers wrote in the court

US District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston responded late on Wednesday, issuing an order restricted by Trump’s administration quickly deporting migrants.

In his ruling, Judge Murphy said the “brazen” deportation was challenging the ban, which he had previously issued that he defended the proper migrant rights process subject to the final deportation order.

Earlier, the resolution requires the officials to provide migrants a written message in their language and a significant opportunity to apply for the protection of them from removal.

Asked if he knew about the migrant deportation plan to Libya, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday: “I don’t know. You will need to ask the security of the Motherland.”

Libya is considered one of several countries requested to accept migrants deportations by Trump administration.

This week Rwanda confirmed that it was at the “early stage” of the US negotiationsWhile Benin, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini and Moldova were named in the media.

It is unclear how many people the United States hopes to deport Libya, or which part of Libya will be sent to migrants.

Since the overthrow of the former head of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country has been divided into two – the West has been ruled by a government that does not support, from which the Prime Minister is, while military General Khafar runs the East.

Haftar’s son met with US officials in Washington last Monday, but the US State Department and the Libyan press secretary said the meeting was not about deportation.

Since his return to his post in January, President Trump has launched a mass deportation campaign – sometimes based on a controversial tactic, such as a call for long -standing wartime law.

Earlier this week government offered migrants who are illegally in the US for $ 1,000 (£ 751) to leave the country.