Guatemalan deportee arrives in US after judge orders Trump to facilitate return
BOSTON, June 4 (Reuters) - A Guatemalan man who said he was deported to Mexico despite fearing he would be persecuted there was flown back to the United States on Wednesday after a judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return, his lawyer said.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston had ordered the man's return after the Justice Department notified him that its claim that the man had expressly stated he was not afraid of being sent to Mexico was based on erroneous information.
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