ST.PAUL, Minn. – A federal judge ruled that Trump deportation agents cannot transfer a University of Minnesota student to another jurisdiction in their quest to throw him out of the country. The student, Doğukan Günaydin, a Turkish citizen, has been in deportation custody since March. Judge Jeffrey Bryan ruled in response to concern from Günaydin’s attorney that Trump agents were planning to switch jurisdictions to sidestep public support for Günaydin in Minnesota. The Trump deportation pogrom, which has made 40,000 arrests in 100 days, has operated as secretly as possible in rounding up immigrants and shipping them to their home nations without judicial review. Some have ended in an El Salvador gulag under a Trump contract to hold them indefinitely outside any U.S court jurisdiction and to die there. In upending the process in Günaydin’s case, Judge Bryan ruled that the Trump deportation agency cannot move Günaydin out of Minnesota while court proceedings continue in the state. Judge Bryan noted that the deportation agency has provided inconsistent justifications for Günaydin’s detention. He also ruled that Günaydin does not pose a flight risk and that he could suffer irreparable harm if he were moved elsewhere.
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