Washington, May 8 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal judge has warned a Trump administration plan to send undocumented immigrants to Libya would violate a court order issued in March. 

Lawyers for immigrants from Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines believe a North Africa-bound deportation flight could take off as early as this week.  But Libya’s two rival governments have denied any such agreement with the U.S., calling the potential move a violation of the country’s sovereignty. 

Libya has a track record of gross human rights violation in its treatment of refugees and immigrants; the United Nations has reported “widespread practices of arbitrary detention, torture, rape and slavery.”

[ SOURCE:  DEMOCRACY NOW ]