Migrants deported from US, including an Iranian woman, arrive in Central African Republic
BANGUI, Central African Republic: An Iranian woman is among around two dozen migrants who arrived Friday in the Central African Republic on a deportation flight from the United States, lawyers said, in the latest example of the Trump administration’s widely criticized deals with African and Latin American nations to take third-country deportees.
The Central African Republic, a deeply impoverished country plagued by conflict, is one of at least nine African nations with this type of agreement.
Under a series of often-secret agreements that are part of a broad US crackdown on immigration, the Trump administration has deported thousands of people to nearly two dozen countries that are not their own, advocates say.
The Trump administration uses deportations to third countries as a legal loophole to indirectly force asylum seekers back to their home countries, immigration lawyers said.
