The NY Times follows the trail’s for several people that have been detained and deported from America to places they have NEVER been to…..
Like many of the more than two dozen deportees on the flight with him, Mr. Sánchez said he did not know where he was being taken. Several panicked when they suspected it was Liberia, after one of them saw it written on a sheet of paper held by an ICE official in Louisiana.
When some protested, they were beaten by agents, five of the deportees said. Some were slammed to the ground or struck with blows, several said. One showed cuts along his wrists and bruises around his neck, which he said he received after resisting getting on the plane. Another said some deportees were left screaming in pain.
The planeload of deportees, which arrived in Liberia this month, carried the first of 1,200 people expected to be sent to the West African country by the United States over the next year. The arrangement is one of the largest in a growing number of deals the Trump administration has made to send deportees — including people with court orders protecting them from being sent back to their home countries — to nations halfway across the world where they have no ties.
In recent weeks, the White House has pushed to expand these so-called third-country deportation efforts and boost the number of people expelled from the United States, according to a U.S. official. In July, ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 people, and the administration has focused on deporting people who have been able to remain in the country for years with court orders protecting them from being sent home, another official added.
The New York Times interviewed 10 of the deportees on the flight to Liberia, all of whom described a harrowing journey that included months in detention in the United States and a panicked 14-hour expulsion to Africa, in which agents wrestled and shackled frightened detainees.
Several spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. All of them said they experienced or witnessed what they described as abusive or violent treatment by ICE officials during the course of their deportation or while in detention in the United States.
“They didn’t treat us like people, like human beings,” said Carlos Téllez-Sanchez, a deportee from Venezuela who was expelled to Liberia. “They can say or do anything to you and there’s nothing you can do.”
The White House, Department of Homeland Security and State Department said in statements that the only deportees being sent to third countries are those who cannot be returned to their home nations or refuse to go back….
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Officials from the International Organization for Migration, a U.N. agency, said in a statement that they had provided assistance to the deportees, and would help send them back to their home countries or find “other available pathways.”
Many of the deportees are now trying to figure out what to do — settle in an unfamiliar African nation or return to countries where they fear persecution?
Mr. Téllez-Sanchez, who fled Venezuela in 2019, said he hoped to be allowed back in the United States, but was not so optimistic: “Maybe it won’t be possible.”
For now, he said, he just wants to see his family, including the newborn son he has yet to hold….
Note….
One COULD assume that next American President IS going to deal with those thousands that the have been deported while following the rules to get their visa’s dealt with….
In addtion?
Promises made by prior President’s, Democratic and Republican, WILL be back on the table for an America that actually needs the services, and labor, of those Trump & Co. have shipped away….
Cleaning up behind Trump & Co’s mess….
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