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Last month, a 20-year-old Guatemalan man who came to the United States when he was 2 years old was detained at a gas station by heavily armed men in black military-style uniforms, sent to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the notorious immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, and eventually ended up on a deportation flight back to Guatemala, according to a sworn declaration filed this week in San Diego federal court.
But the man should have never been detained nor deported, according to his attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union, because he was in the U.S. legally under a historic class-action settlement pertaining to the first Trump administration’s unconstitutional family-separation policy.
On Thursday, attorneys from the ACLU were back in San Diego federal court arguing that the Guatemalan man and various members of at least six families who were also in the U.S. legally under the family-separation settlement have been deported in violation of both the settlement and a more recent order from the San Diego-based judge overseeing the litigation.
In addition to those who have been ...
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