Trump/Miller Deport People Judges Tell Them NOT To…..

Mustapha Camara and immigrants like him had court protections that they thought made them safe from the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. They found themselves swept up nonetheless.

To deport these immigrants, the administration has partnered with foreign governments, many with spotty human rights records. In exchange for money and foreign policy favors, they have agreed to accept deportees who cannot be returned to their countries of origin.

But a New York Times investigation found that this program results in many of them being pushed back to the very countries where the Trump administration itself cannot legally send them. Some of the United States’ foreign partners have made clear that will happen. And when it does, the Trump administration continues sending planes full of deportees.

The Times identified more than 110 people who had court-ordered protections and were handed over to foreign governments, only to then be passed on to home countries where they risked torture, sexual abuse or persecution — risks that have been validated by American courts….

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The third-country deportation program is rooted in a belief, expressed by many senior Trump administration officials, that immigrants abuse the asylum system and that judges hand out protections too easily to refugees….

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Stephen Miller, who on Friday was named White House chief of staff, is the architect and public face of the administration’s immigration policy. But day to day, officials said, the key figure behind the third-country deportation program is Andrew Veprek, a senior State Department official who shares Mr. Miller’s views and has worked closely with him for many years….

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