Federal judge refuses to reconsider order to facilitate deportee's return to US

A federal judge denied a request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reconsider his order calling for the Trump administration "to take all immediate steps" to return a Guatemalan deportee to the U.S. 

The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts comes after he issued a ruling last week saying that the removal of the individual – identified only as O.C.G. – "lacked due process."

"In general, this case presents no special facts or legal circumstances, only the banal horror of a man being wrongfully loaded onto a bus and sent back to a country where he was allegedly just raped and kidnapped," Murphy wrote Friday.

"Defendants are hereby ORDERED to take al...