{"id":1031,"date":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","slug":"judge-orders-trump-administration-to-return-colombian-woman-deported-to-drc-back-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1031","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 A federal judge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}