A new error adds to the account of unfair deportations in the campaign undertaken by the Donald Trump government. If the first known case, that of the Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego, became the arbitrariness symbol of the crusade against the immigration of the new government, the second and the third deportation by error have passed almost unnoticed, despite being recognized by the administration. Now it is a Guatemalan gay migrant, who had judicial protection, and is currently hidden somewhere in his country, which he fled, because the authorities were wrong to expel him.
According to the statement filed in a Massachussets Court, which takes the case, the Immigration and Customs Protection Service (ICE) forcibly sent to the OCG – as is identified in the lawsuit – to Mexico for a failure in the database of the database of the databases of software that tracks individual deportation cases and allows authorized personnel to insert comments, according to Political. Official documents show that OG was deported to Mexico in March this year because when ICE agents asked him if he was afraid to reach that country, he said no. But the reality is that Og gave no answer because no one ever asked.
The lawyers of the Security Department have declared that “after a more thorough investigation, the defendants could not identify any officer to ask the OC if he was afraid to be deported to Mexico.” Its expulsion was produced by the information obtained from an internal database but it was never verified.
Upon arriving in Mexico a few weeks ago, Og asked to be transferred to his country, Guatemala, where he is exposed to great dangers, he has reported. In a statement before the courts, the man explained that he arrived in the United States in March 2024 fleeing the persecution and torture, but did not allow him to submit an asylum application and, after being a week detained, they deported him to Guatemala. In April of the same year he tried again.
Upon arriving in Mexico, in Iztapalapa, they violated him and a group of men kept him locked up for days, until his sister paid the rescue. Once in the United States he began his asylum process. OG and assures that the judge confirmed that he would not be returned to Mexico, where he feared reprisals for being gay, and that he was granted protection that prevented him from being deported to Guatemala, also for possible persecution in the Central American country.
None of that served him in the midst of the current government campaign to deport one million people in the first year of mandate. Og was locked up two days, after those who put him in a bus with another 20 migrants to Mexico, ignoring his request to consult with his lawyer and the judicial protection he had. “They told me that I could request asylum in Mexico, but that they would keep me locked up during the months that took a decision, or that I could simply accept that they took me back to Guatemala. After what had happened to me in Mexico, I was too afraid to ask for asylum there. I had no safe options, so I told them to send me back to Guatemala,” he explained.
The OCG case is for now the last error recognized by the Government in its deportations. The Abrego García preceded, to which the Administration, who recognized the ruling, accuses him without evidence of belonging to the MS-13 criminal gang. The Executive is breaking the guidelines of the federal judge who takes the case and even those of the Supreme Court, which he has requested on several occasions to facilitate his return to the United States. Daniel Lozano-Camargo, a Venezuelan man sent to El Salvador in March despite the agreement approved by the court that required that his asylum application be resolved first, should not never be expelled.
While OG protects himself somewhere in Guatemala, his lawyers try to appeal to justice to try to twist the hand of the government and take him back to the United States. Until now, the Administration has disjointed all the judges who have taken the opposite.
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