(21 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston – 21 May 2025
1. Trina Realmuto and Anwen Hughes leaving the courthouse, approaching reporters
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Trina Realmuto, Executive Director, National Immigration Litigation Alliance:
"Today the court found that the preliminary injunction was violated. The government deported individuals in violation of this previous preliminary injunction without affording the due process that is required. This is our second time to court based on violations of the court’s order. The government is still refusing to provide due process to our clients which means they are not giving them notice of the country to which they’re being deported – proper notice in a language that they understand. And not giving them a meaningful opportunity to claim fear, based on those countries and importantly, here, you know, our last time was – because government was seeking to deport people to Libya. And we’re here today because they are seeking to deport people to Sudan. These are countries that the State Department doesn’t want Americans to travel to. They are categorically not safe. They are places where our class members are not safe, and they are not being afforded an opportunity to consult with counsel and to make an informed choice about the fear that they have."
3. Hughes and Realmuto discussing with reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anwen Hughes, Senior Director of Legal Strategy and Legal Initiatives, Human Rights First:
"The fact that the government is not only choosing to violate this order, but has now, for the second time, no the third time actually, chosen to do so in a way that seems aimed at removing people in the most spectacularly harmful way possible, that is also not a legitimate purpose of the civil immigration laws."
5. Hughes and Realmuto discussing with reporter
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anwen Hughes, Senior Director of Legal Strategy and Legal Initiatives, Human Rights First:
"This is not about any, you know, reasonable administration of U.S. immigration law. And it also poses really serious questions about compliance with the rule of law which is the foundational element of our democracy."
7. Hughes and Realmuto outside of the courthouse
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Anwen Hughes, Senior Director of Legal Strategy and Legal Initiatives, Human Rights First:
"Attempts to remove people to third countries are something that has become more common lately, which is the reason why we filed this lawsuit. I think that the particular choice of countries is spectacularly unusual. And that is to say, the particular choice of countries and the relationship or lack of relationship between those countries and the the actual deportees. So we’re talking about countries – we’re talking Libya and South Sudan, are countries, which in the case of Libya, you know, is known for being an atrociously dangerous place for migrants, specifically from other countries, which normally has meant, I mean, normally, which in general has meant African migrants because others would not have a reason to be passing through Libya. South Sudan is a country that’s notoriously unstable. These are, at a minimum, illogical places to be sending anybody from Latin America or East Asia."
9. Plaque outside the courthouse
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Trina Realmuto, Executive Director, National Immigration Litigation Alliance:
11. Realmuto and Hughes leaving
STORYLINE:
"The government is still refusing to provide due process to our clients," Trina Realmuto, the executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, told the press outside the courthouse.
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