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UN experts call for halt to Trump policy of migrant deportations to third countries Africa 19 min ago

UN experts call for halt to Trump policy of migrant deportations to third countries Africa 19 min ago

By GhanaSummary NewsroomKenya

More than a dozen UN human rights experts have written to the US government urging a halt to policies that they said on Monday were putting migrants at heightened risk of abuse, including torture and persecution, by deporting them to countries other than their own."The harms caused by this US Government scheme are no longer hypothetical," the communication said, warning that they were triggering "a cascade of human rights violations."Washington has previously defended the third-country deals as lawful and said deportations are ​carried out in accordance with US immigration law.

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