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Mateo Moreno

He Testified Against the Cartels. ICE Deported Him to the Cartels Anyway. Now Judge Ordered Him Back — REPORT

WILLIAMSPORT, MARYLAND - MARCH 23: Exterior view of a warehouse that is the site for a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Williamsport, Maryland. (Credit: Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

A Mexican man who put his own safety on the line to help U.S. prosecutors build cases against people tied to drug cartels spent three weeks this summer bouncing between two countries that kept refusing to take him — and one that finally did. A federal judge in Maryland has now stepped in and directed officials to bring him home, after they stripped away the very protection meant to keep him out of Mexico and sent him there anyway.

A protection earned through cooperation, not asylum

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