A federal judge on Monday suggested the Trump administration is intentionally flouting legal obligations and sending immigrants to "face persecution, torture, or death" in their home countries.

In a 16-page memorandum opinion and order , U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a Barack Obama appointee, took the federal government to task for its "illegal" deportation methods as of late — while at the same time declining to rule in favor of the five deported West African men who filed their lawsuit a few days ago.

On Sept. 5, the plaintiffs were removed from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, loaded onto a military cargo plane where they sat for nearly a day with several others, and then sent to Ghana — a country in West Africa which recently inked a third-country deportation

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