A US judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from implementing a new policy allowing it to rapidly deport hundreds, if not thousands, of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them a chance to show they fear being persecuted, tortured or killed there.

US District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston last month issued an order that temporarily blocked the administration from fast-tracking deportations, hobbling its ability to remove migrants subject to final orders who, in some cases, have legal protections preventing them from being sent back to their countries of origin.

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The preliminary injunction issued Friday will keep that order in place until the litigation is resolved.

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