US EditionThe US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal
The Trump administration deported nearly 300 migrants to countries with no ties, spending $40 million, including a gay asylum-seeker sent to Cameroon despite a U.S. protection order.
- Farah, a 21-year-old gay asylum-seeker from Morocco where homosexuality is illegal, fled due to family violence and persecution and sought asylum in the United States but was deported to Cameroon, a third country where homosexuality is also illegal, despite a US judge's protection order barring deportation to Morocco.
- Farah was detained in the US for nearly a year, denied asylum, and deported to Cameroon where she was held in a detention facility and faced difficult choices without legal support, fearing for her life after returning to Morocco and going into hiding.
- The Trump administration deported dozens of migrants, many with US immigration judges' protection orders, to third countries such as Cameroon, circumventing legal protections and due process, in a policy aimed at pressuring illegal migrants to leave the US.
- Some African countries, including Cameroon, received migrants from the US under deals involving millions of dollars, raising legal and humanitarian concerns with little support for deportees facing dangerous conditions.
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US deported a gay asylum-seeker to country where homosexuality is illegal
Being gay in Morocco is illegal and punishable by up to three years in prison. But it was the violence from her family that forced Farah, a 21-year-old gay woman, to flee the country.After a long journey to the United States and a third-country deportation by the Trump administration, however, Farah said she is now back in Morocco and in hiding.It is hard to live and work with the fear of being tracked once again by my family, she told The Assoc…
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WNDUUS deports a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal
Being gay in Morocco is illegal and punishable by up to three years in prison. But it was the violence from her family that forced Farah, a 21-year-old gay woman, to flee the country.
Gay Migrant Forced to 'Live and Work in Fear' After U.S. Deportation to Country Where Homosexuality Is Illegal
A 21-year-old Moroccan woman identified as Farah says she is in hiding in her home country after being deported by the United States despite a judge's protection order barring her removal there.
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