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Takeaways from AP's interview with Colombian woman deported to Congo by US
The Trump administration has sent 15 Latin Americans to Congo, where they live under restricted conditions and face unclear legal status.
- The Trump administration deported 15 Latin Americans to the Democratic Republic of Congo, many despite U.S. court orders shielding them from removal to their homelands.
- Deals with at least eight African nations allow the administration to accept deportees whom home countries refuse, which the Department of Homeland Security claims helps "remove criminal illegal aliens."
- A 29-year-old Colombian woman granted protection under the Convention Against Torture in May 2025 was detained at a routine Customs Enforcement check-in before her nearly 24-hour charter flight.
- Deportees reside in hotel bungalows in Kinshasa under International Organization for Migration supervision, holding three-month visas and facing "impossible choices," according to attorney Alma David.
- Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi called the arrangement an "act of goodwill," though the Congo-based Institute for Human Rights Research described it as "arbitrary detention by proxy for the United States.
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Takeaways from AP's interview with Colombian woman deported to Congo by US
The Trump administration has deported 15 Latin Americans to the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite U.S. court orders protecting them from deportation to their homelands.
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It is a situation that the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has described as “living the Congolese dream.” For the 15 Latin Americans deported to the African country under the widely criticized campaign of the U.S. president Donald Trump’s government against migrants, it feels more like a nightmare. The Associated Press spoke with one of [...] The Latin American entry deported by the U.S. to the Democratic Republic of the Congo …
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C 37%
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