A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration has to return a South American woman it tried to deport to the middle of Africa, according to the New York Times.
Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata, 55, was deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo in April, according to the Times. A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration had most likely violated the law by doing so, according to Zapata's lawyers, who spoke with the Times.
The Times noted that the Trump administration is trying "to find places to deport migrants whom the government cannot send to their home countries, usually because a judge has ruled that they will most likely face persecution and torture."
The workaround has been to try "cutting deals with countries that are willing to accept these migrants."
