US appeals court rejects Trump bid to fast-track migrant deportations

Newly erected holding tents for detained migrants are seen at the US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on Feb 21. PHOTO: REUTERS

UPDATED Apr 08, 2025, 09:53 AM

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BOSTON - A US appeals court on April 7 declined to lift an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from deporting people to countries the government did not previously raise without first allowing individuals to show they face risk of persecution or torture there.

A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request by President Donald Trump's administration to put on hold a nationwide temporary restraining order issued by a judge on March 28.

The order has hobbled the government's ability to fast-track deporting thousands of migrants who cannot be sent to their origin countries, in some cases because the people have legal protections against such a move.

In arguing for his order to be lifted, the US Department of Justice said that US District Judge Brian Murphy “may have irreparably harmed the executive’s ability to negotiate the return of aliens to countries of which they are not a citizen”.