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Authorities have actually deported LGBTQ individuals to Sierra Leone, where they might deal with life in jail for
A group of detainees board an Eastern Air Express flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on January 11, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Department of Homeland Security has actually been running deportation flights out of the personal charter Signature Aviation. Stephen Maturen/ Getty Images
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The Trump administration has actually apparently deported lots of LGBTQ immigrants who looked for or were given asylum for their sexuality and gender to 3rd nations where they deal with risk of persecution and criminalization, a brand-new report states.
In an examination released today,Reuters recognized 40 cases where these LGBTQ people were sent out to nations that either criminalize same-sex relations or have actually been designated by the State Department as hazardous for LGBTQ individuals.
All of these individuals were given legal defense in the U.S. for leaving persecution for their LGBTQ status in their native lands, per ReutersMore than half of them were disqualified for asylum due to the fact that of a limiting Biden-era transit restriction on asylum candidates.
People tracked in the report have actually been deported to nations consisting of Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Eswatini, 3 nations where same-sex acts are criminalizedIn Sierra Leone, very same sex acts bring a penalty of approximately life in jail. Other nations that have actually signed deportation contracts with the U.S. have actually seen abuses versus LGBTQ individuals like conversion treatment and “restorative rape,” the report notes.
The Trump administration has actually signed 3rd nation deportation arrangements with a minimum of 35 nations, and has actually deported over 25,000 individuals in this manner, sending them to locations that they have no association with. Numerous federal governments in Africa and main and South America have actually signed contracts to get such deportees, frequently in exchange for direct financing or other monetary rewards.
Reuters kept in mind the story of one guy, recognized as Abdou Latifou, who left his home nation of Togo after a mob attacked him and threatened to eliminate him after he kissed a male. A U.S. migration judge chose in 2015 that it was too risky for him to return home; he remembered believing, “From this day on, I’m going into a world where I’m totally free to live as myself.”
In the middle of its mass deportation project, and while understanding that Latifou was gay, the Trump administration deported him to Sierra Leone, where he was held for 2 weeks under authorities monitoring before being put on a flight to Togo. Leaving threat yet once again, he went to the Ivory Coast, where he resides in worry of being acknowledged.
“When a person is no longer in ICE custody then ICE will no longer be accountable for them,” Department of Homeland Security representative Chandler Rebel informed Reuters
The report is the most recent recording the Trump administration’s deportations of individuals to locations where they might be threatened. Other reports today discovered that the Trump administration deported a previous political detainee back to the location he was put behind bars and tortured recently. Jeffrey Jarquín, who led pro-democracy demonstrations versus the Nicaraguan federal government, was supposedly taken straight from the deportation flight to the capital of Managua to an infamous Nicaraguan jail.
The Trump administration is dealing with a claim from Iranian asylum applicants who state that U.S. authorities covertly shared delicate info, consisting of LGBTQ status, about them with the Iranian federal government– as it’s attempted to deport them into a nation where they might deal with persecution.
The Trump administration has actually ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians in the U.S., and has actually deported hundreds of immigrants back to Haiti, which has actually experienced a rise of violence and appetite.
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