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Cover image: Reporters: ICE, Trump and Africa: Secret deals, broken lives © Studio graphique FMM For this edition of Reporters+, Karina Chabour has investigated a dark side of Donald Trump’s immigration policy. How ICE deports immigrants to so-called ‘third countries’ in Africa, far from the United States and often far from their countries of origin. Most of the people deported have been living in the US for decades.
They worked there, paid taxes and many even have families left behind. Without notice, they are arrested, detained and then deported to Ghana and Eswatini; countries they don’t know, where they have no relatives, no income or status. Our reporter met individuals who now live in limbo: without papers, sometimes detained, at risk of being sent back to the very country they fled, many fearing for their lives.
The Deportation Project: behind the investigation on Trump administration’s mass deportations As part of a consortium of 26 media outlets coordinated by Forbidden Stories, RFI and FRANCE 24 spent six months investigating the secret deals struck between the administration of US President Donald Trump and several African countries. These so-called “third countries” have agreed to host undocumented migrants detained by ICE and deported from the US. From Ghana to Cameroon and Eswatini, our journalists spoke to the people deported to countries utterly unfamiliar to them.
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