More than half of Latin Americans deported from US to Congo are now back home
Nine of 15 deportees have returned home, and some were sent back through a U.N. migration program after U.S. courts flagged persecution risks.
- On Friday, the Congolese government confirmed that more than half of the 15 Latin Americans deported from the United States to Congo in April have returned to their home countries.
- In April, President Donald Trump transferred the 15 migrants to Congo under a bilateral agreement intended to accept third-country deportees from the United States.
- Assisted by the International Organization for Migration, seven migrants returned home via the Assisted Voluntary Return program, while others departed independently, lawyer Alma David said.
- Despite a federal judge's order for her return to the United States last month due to medical needs, Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata remains in Congo.
- Congo's government stated remaining migrants will return "shortly," characterizing the deportation arrangement as "strictly transitional, temporary, and time-limited" in scope.
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More than half of Latin Americans deported from US to Congo are now back home
More than half the 15 Latin Americans deported to Congo under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown have returned to their home countries.
Nine migrants deported from US to Congo return to home countries
DAKAR, June 5 (Reuters) – Nine out of 15 migrants deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo in April have returned to their home countries, Congo’s government, a migrant and her lawyer said on Friday. • The 15 migrants arrived in Congo on April 17 as part of a bilateral agreement with the Trump administration announced two weeks earlier to accept third-country deportees from the United States. • Congo’s government …
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Kinshasa, 5 Jun (Latin Press) The Ministry of Communication and Media of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today made public that more than half of the migrants accepted under the agreement with the United States have already left the country. The post government of DRC announced the departure of migrants under agreement with the US first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.
“More than half” of the 15 Latin American migrants expelled from the United States and deported to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in April left this country to return to their countries of origin, the Congolese government announced on Friday.On April 17, 15 men and women from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru landed in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, as part of a controversial U.S. device to expel irregular aliens to third countries. U.S. …
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