A Filipino immigrant detained in Texas was described as being awakened by armed guards in tactical equipment at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, told he was taken to Libya and then waited for hours on a military base outside the military plane, his lawyer said.

Immigration attorney Johnny Sinodis told NBC News that the flight never took off and he was sent back to solitary confinement at a Texas facility along with 12 other detainees. Immigrants demanded anonymity due to fear of revenge.

Immigrants, including those from the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Mexico, will later learn that their lawyers have filed an emergency motion after the Trump administration had planned to send a group of immigrants to Libya.

A federal judge then executed a previous order Wednesday afternoon to deport deport to a third country.

Another immigration lawyer, Tin Nguyen, the client, was on the bus, said that despite the cessation of deportation, many people remained on the edge for being sent to an unfamiliar country and were criticized for serious violations of human rights rights.

"Libya, El Salvador or Rwanda...it's very scary for people," said nguyen, of North Carolina. “People know nothing about these countries, and the news they hear is terrible.”

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment on issues related to deportation and legal motions.

Last week, a judge awarded a preliminary injunction that ruled that the Trump administration must take several steps to ensure they have sufficient due process before any non-citizens are removed.

Sinodis said earlier this week, immigration and customs law enforcement officers told his client that he was sent to Libya. The lawyer said that a few days later, the detainees were given minutes to collect their property before they could be processed from the facility, tied up and hit the bus.

Eventually, the detainees were taken back to the facility and released to the total population of the facility the next morning.

Sinodis criticized the process legally about and inefficient. He said, for example, sending immigrants from Mexico makes no sense around the world.

"I mean how much does it cost to send people from Mexico to Libya?" he said. “You can drive to Mexico.”

Nguyen recounted a series of similar incidents, adding that his Vietnamese had been threatened to be sent to Libya before. According to an emergency motion filed on Wednesday, there was once a time when detainees and others signed documents agreeing to be deported to the country, and nguyen's client was the plaintiff.

"He didn't read the document. He couldn't read it (in English) nor was he translated on a Vietnamese or an interpreter. So he refused to sign it," Nguyen said. “Because he refused to sign, he was separated from the others.”

The emergency motion said the detainees who refused to move to Libya were placed in separate rooms with "cuffs", forced to provide signatures for the documents.

After spending hours on the tarmac, nguyen said his client called his wife.

"They aren't intertwined with the general crowd or with each other, but they're able to make phone calls," Nguyen said.

Nguyen said it was not clear what would happen next, but his client would rather be sent back to Vietnam than to a third country.

"This time, I'm helping people speed up the process of actually trying to get travel documents from Vietnam so people can go to Vietnam," the lawyer said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a cabinet meeting last month that the United States is "actively looking for other countries to pick up people."

"We are working with other countries, 'We want to send you some of the meanest humans.' "'Will you help us? 'The further, the better, so they can't cross the boundaries. ”

Reports on plans to send immigrants to Libya have raised opposition from immigrants and humanitarian advocates.

Libya has long been criticized for its treatment of immigrants. The UN Human Rights Commission established Libya’s independent fact-finding mission found in a 2023 report that “crimes against humanity are committed against Libyans and immigrants in Libya”.

The report documented “arbitrary detention, murder, torture, rape, slavery, sexual slavery, extrajudicial killing and execution of disappearances, which confirm their extensive practices in Libya.”

The State Department’s own website warned against traveling to Libya, classifying the country as Level 4, which is “a greater possibility of life-threatening risk” and the highest level of consultation.

Libya said on social media that Libya's interim government said it did not coordinate with the U.S. deportation, and it refused to use the country as a destination for deported immigrants without its knowledge or consent.

"The government explicitly denies any agreement or coordination related to any immigration deported from the state in the United States," it said.