Secret Documents: Trump Deports Over 100 People to 8 African Countries - Sarmad

Secret documents reveal that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump deported more than 100 individuals from Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other countries to eight African nations within a 10-day period.

Government documents show that three Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation flights landed dozens of men and women expelled from the United States in Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Liberia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone.

None of the deportees were citizens of the countries to which they were sent, according to the documents. In addition to Afghans, Cubans, and Nicaraguans, ICE flights over the past week and a half included deportees from Iran, Nepal, Turkey, and Venezuela, as well as African detainees who were not from the countries to which they were sent.

These previously unreported federal documents provide a window into the Trump administration’s escalating campaign to use “third-country” deportation agreements to exile groups of deportees to distant nations with which they have no ties.

More than 30 countries around the world have agreed to accept such deportees from the United States, including countries in Latin America such as Costa Rica, Panama, and Paraguay. However, an increasing number of African nations have signed third-country deportation deals with the Trump administration, including the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan, which are plagued by armed conflicts, political instability, and human rights abuses.

These international agreements have largely remained secret, but it appears that some countries, such as Ghana and Sierra Leone, agreed only to accept deportees from other parts of Africa. Meanwhile, countries such as Eswatini, the Central African Republic, and Liberia accepted detainees from Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

Some deportees sent to Africa by the Trump administration have criminal records in addition to immigration violations, including those sent to Eswatini and South Sudan, where authorities detained deportees convicted of violent and serious crimes in the United States.

However, many deportees sent to other countries lack any criminal record, apart from entering the United States illegally or lacking the proper documentation to remain there.