In defiance of a court order, logic, and basic human decency, ICE deported Guatemalan asylum seeker Faustino Pablo Pablo to the one place he was explicitly not allowed to be sent: Guatemala, where a judge had already found he was likely to be tortured.

You'll notice the words "blatant lawlessness of his removal" are not in quotes. This is a judge talking directly to ICE and the government's legal reps, telling them exactly what he thinks about their actions. This isn't an indirect slam cribbed from precedent.

And the judge is right to be angry. As Kyle Cheney's report for Politico notes, this is something ICE has been doing repeatedly since the beginning of Trump's second term.

The administration has acknowledged several other improper deportations, including a man sent to El Salvador d

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