D.V.D. v. Department of Homeland Security

D.V.D. v. Department of Homeland Security is a 2025 class action brought by a Cuban immigrant, with the court-authorized pseudonym of D.V.D., and three other immigrant plaintiffs seeking to prevent their deportation to a country other than their country of origin, without first being given the opportunity to challenge the deportation on the basis that they might face serious harm in that other country. The case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., and led to two U.S. Supreme Court opinions.

The deportation was planned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The hearing took place in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts with Judge Brian E. Murphy.

The court documents state the case asks the following question:

Before the United States forcibly sends someone to a country other than their country of origin, must that person be told where they are going and be given a chance to tell the United States that they might be killed if sent there?

The wording of the case continues with the following statement:

Defendants argue that the United States may send a deportable alien to a country not of their origin, not where an immigration judge has ordered, where they may be immediately tortured and killed, without providing that person any opportunity to tell the deporting authorities that they face grave danger or death because of such a deportation.

At the time of this court case, all nine justices of the Supreme Court had agreed in Trump v. J.G.G. that immigrants must be given notice and an opportunity to challenge their deportation. In the end, the members of the class action were part of the deportations in the second presidency of Donald Trump. However, the appeal based upon a preliminary injunction in this case is presently ongoing.