A federal judge found that transgender woman Britania Uriostegui Rios would face significant risk of persecution or torture if she was deported to Mexico. But instead of following their own laws and procedures, the government decided to deport her anyway. The Trump administration has now acknowledged that officials improperly removed her to Mexico in direct violation of the judge’s order, dropping her across the border without warning before later conceding the “inadvertent” deportation. 

Since March, the administration has attempted, so far without success, to send Uriostegui Rios to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvadoe. Now, Uriostegui Rios is suing to prevent being returned to the custody of the very agency that unlawfully expelled her. 

Read more about Britania’s story here.

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