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New Trump policy to speed deportations cannot be implemented, US judge rules

By Thomson Reuters Apr 18, 2025 | 10:02 AM

By Nate Raymond and Daniel Wiessner

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from implementing a new policy allowing it to rapidly deport hundreds if not thousands of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them a chance to show they fear being persecuted, tortured or killed there.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston and Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)