A federal appeals court in Boston has placed itself between the machinery of rapid deportation and the human beings caught within it, ruling that migrants cannot be sent to unfamiliar third countries without notice or the right to object. The First Circuit's decision reflects an enduring tension in democratic governance: the state's power to enforce borders against the individual's claim to basic procedural dignity. With over 25,000 people already deported to 29 nations — some with documented records of repression — the court has named a harm that has already materialized. Yet the ruling remai
US appeals court blocks Trump's third-country deportation policy
Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea were arbitrarily detained, beaten, and held at gunpoint by police in a detention center.