US EditionUS Deportation Deal Sends Protected Migrants to Equatorial Guinea
The Trump administration paid $7.5 million to Equatorial Guinea to accept 29 migrants, many protected by U.S. law, who remain detained or in uncertain status.
- A refugee from an unspecified country was deported from the US to Equatorial Guinea despite being told he would be protected by US law.
- Equatorial Guinea has become a transit hub for deported migrants from the US under a secretive deal with the Trump administration.
- The deported migrants, who cannot return to their home countries due to persecution, are left with 'no more hope' in Equatorial Guinea.
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Secretive deal leaves deportees from the U.S. stuck in Equatorial Guinea with ‘no more hope’
When a U.S. immigration judge told a 28-year old refugee from East Africa that he was free to leave detention in California after 13 months, he was overjoyed. Though an asylum request was denied, the judge ruled he could not be deported home because it would put him in danger.
Stranded in Limbo: Refugees Trapped by Secretive US Deportation Deals
Despite being granted legal protection from deportation by a US judge, a 28-year-old East African refugee was sent to Equatorial Guinea, a country lacking an asylum policy. Secretive US deals with several African nations have facilitated deportations, putting refugees at risk of persecution in their home countries.
Secretive deal leaves deportees from the US stuck in Equatorial Guinea with ‘no more hope’
Accounts are emerging from people deported from the U.S. to the African petrostate of Equatorial Guinea in a multi-million-dollar, third-country deal with the Trump administration.
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Secretive deal leaves deportees from the US stuck in Equatorial Guinea with 'no more hope'
Accounts are emerging from people deported from the U.S. to the African petrostate of Equatorial Guinea in a multi-million-dollar, third-country deal with the Trump administration.
When a U.S. immigration judge told a 28-year-old refugee from East Africa that he could leave a detention center in California after 13 months, he was greatly pleased. Although he was denied the asylum application, the magistrate determined that he could not be deported to his country because that would put him in danger.
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