Guatemalan man deported to Mexico flown back to US after judge’s orders

A military aircraft waits for people to board from a bus at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, before deporting them to Guatemala. Photograph: Christian Chavez/AP

A Guatemalan man who said he was deported to Mexico despite fearing he would be persecuted there was flown back to the US on Wednesday after a judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return, his lawyer said.

Brian Murphy, a US district judge in Boston, Massachusetts, had ordered the man’s return after the US Department of Justice 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.