{"id":508,"date":"2026-05-14T19:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:47:39","slug":"judge-orders-trump-administration-to-return-colombian-woman-deported-to-drc-back-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders Trump administration to return Colombian woman deported to DRC back to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge called Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata\u2019s deportation to the Democratic Republic of Congo \u2018likely illegal\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge has ordered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> to bring a Colombian woman back to the US from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/congo\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a>, after she was deported to the African country that had refused to accept her.<\/p>\n<p>The deportation of Adriana Mar\u00eda Quiroz Zapata \u201cwas likely illegal\u201d, the US district judge Richard Leon ruled on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/trump-administration-colombian-woman-drc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge called Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata\u2019s deportation to the Democratic Republic of Congo \u2018likely illegal\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}