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The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal
Farah, a 21-year-old asylum-seeker, was deported despite a U.S. immigration judge's protection order amid a program sending migrants to third countries, with $40 million spent on deportations.
- Farah, a 21-year-old asylum-seeker, was deported to Cameroon where homosexuality is illegal after nearly a year in U.S. detention facilities in Arizona and Louisiana.
- The Trump administration has relied on third-country deportations to push migrants out, with internal documents showing 47 third-country agreements including Cameroon and six other African nations.
- Records show the first flight's nine deportees, including Farah, had U.S. immigration judges' protection orders but were still sent abroad, immigration lawyer Alma David called this a `loophole`.
- Deportees were placed in a Yaounde detention facility managed by Cameroon authorities, which currently holds 15 deportees from two flights, while Farah is in hiding in Morocco, where homosexuality is illegal.
- The U.S. State Department on Friday declined to comment, and the IOM says it is aware of removals while journalists reporting on the deportations were briefly detained.
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The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal
A woman who sought asylum in the United States after fleeing a country where homosexuality is illegal says the Trump administration's third-country deportation system sent her to another one.
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A 21-year-old girl who fled Morocco because she was persecuted for her sexual orientation says the American vision has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare.
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