The legal fight between the Trump administration and a federal judge in Washington, D.C., over deportation policies has not stopped deportations.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it deported Orbelin Benitez-Carbajal, 49, to Mexico on Monday. Benitez-Carbajal was convicted of numerous offenses while being in the U.S. illegally, including assault in 2006, manslaughter in 2010, driving while intoxicated in 2023 and illegal entry in 2024, all in Texas.
Another deportation Monday involved Cecilio Lopez Vasquez, 40, who ICE said was wanted in his native Guatemala in connection with a rape case. Lopez Vasquez had been ordered deported from the U.S. by an immigration judge in 2006, but ICE said he illegally reentered the U.S. in 2024. ICE agents arrested him in Missouri in February.
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