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April 25, 2025

Trump-Appointed Judge Orders Return of 20-Year-Old Venezuelan from Salvadoran Prison
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A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to
facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan immigrant who was
among the group of over 200 transferred from the United States to El
Salvador in March. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, who was appointed
by Trump, said his expulsion from the U.S. violated a previous court
settlement that protected him from removal while his asylum case was
pending. The asylum seeker, who's been identified only as Cristian, was
part of a class-action lawsuit filed in 2019 by a group of undocumented
immigrants who came to the U.S. as unaccompanied children.


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