How US is using cash and threats to dump migrants in Africa
The United States is using visa bans and restrictions on African countries to strongarm them into taking people from third countries as part of Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, two former State Department officials told AFP.
Policy of ‘xenophobia’ Several third-country deportation programmes were set up, one of the State Department sources told AFP.” But the Trump administration is now arguing that since the protections only bar them from being sent to their country of origin, they can still be sent anywhere else — including to Equatorial Guinea and Ghana, which have then immediately shipped deportees home.
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