human rights lawyer. prison and border abolitionist. internationalism, socialism and freedom of movement. the end of U.S. imperialism everywhere
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El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! The people united will never be defeated! #ShutDownFIPC #AbolishICE
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Huge tragedy! US citizen Tracy Gonzalez packed up to leave the country to join her husband in Mexico when the trailer w/ her possessions burst into flames on I-95. I known Tracy personally, such a powerful voice. Help if you can. Congress needs to act! gofundme.com/f/help-a-dear-f…
The US is systematically deporting people with refugee protections—including many with deep roots in the US—to countries that are swiftly returning them to countries where judges ruled they cannot be sent.
Honored to have contributed to this important story by @60Minutes
“They sent him to Ghana, with full knowledge that Ghana is systematically deporting refugees back to the very countries they fled,” says immigration attorney Meredyth Yoon.
60 Minutes obtained the names of all the people on a flight that left Texas on July 30th and took deportees to three countries in Africa, including Ghana. Of the 19 deportees 60 Minutes reached who were sent to Ghana, 17 say they were then transported against their will to countries U.S. immigration judges ruled they should not be returned to. Moussa Diawara was one of them. The Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for [Diawara’s] safety.”
Yoon says the U.S. government was warned about Ghana’s conduct in a lawsuit last year. Despite this, the U.S. sent 10 more flights to Ghana, which Yoon believes is a violation of international law. cbsn.ws/4zTVoQo
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Texas dad deported by ICE to Ghana was then forced to go to Mali, a country that's unsafe for him, he says cbsn.ws/4yErJcQ
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“It feels really empty without him,” says 16-year-old Corey Diawara, whose father was deported in July.
His father had lived in the U.S. for 25 years and had no criminal record. Moussa Diawara says he was deported without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge. He was eventually sent to Mali, a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for his safety.” DHS also questioned the credibility of Diawara’s arguments for fearing persecution in Mali. cbsn.ws/4etdVdW
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“They sent him to Ghana, with full knowledge that Ghana is systematically deporting refugees back to the very countries they fled,” says immigration attorney Meredyth Yoon.
60 Minutes obtained the names of all the people on a flight that left Texas on July 30th and took deportees to three countries in Africa, including Ghana. Of the 19 deportees 60 Minutes reached who were sent to Ghana, 17 say they were then transported against their will to countries U.S. immigration judges ruled they should not be returned to. Moussa Diawara was one of them. The Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for [Diawara’s] safety.”
Yoon says the U.S. government was warned about Ghana’s conduct in a lawsuit last year. Despite this, the U.S. sent 10 more flights to Ghana, which Yoon believes is a violation of international law. cbsn.ws/4zTVoQo
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Moussa Diawara showed 60 Minutes his Department of Homeland Security-issued bag tags from his deportation flight listing Mali as his destination — a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to because he would likely face persecution.
DHS said in a statement that the “contractors” who filled out the bag tags “are not part of the process that determines…the destination.” A medication form that also included Mali, the agency said, was a “clerical error.” Ghana’s government declined to comment. cbsn.ws/4i4zYtR
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60 Minutes obtained the names of 63 people on a deportation flight from Texas to West Africa. Of the 19 people we reached who were sent to Ghana, 17 say Ghana then transported them against their will to their home countries — places U.S. immigration judges had ruled they should not be returned to.
A Department of Homeland Security lawyer told 60 Minutes he was not aware of cases in which Ghana had sent deportees home against their will. He also said he believes third-country removals have prevented crimes and made Americans safer. cbsn.ws/4yNhS4B
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“I cannot call my wife; I can't contact my lawyer. I can't talk to no one. I tell them, ‘This is kidnapping. You guys kidnapped us.’”
Moussa Diawara was deported to Ghana, and says Ghana then sent him to his native Mali. A U.S. immigration judge previously ruled he could be deported, but not to Mali, where the judge ruled he would likely face persecution.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for his safety.” DHS also questioned the credibility of Diawara’s arguments for fearing persecution in Mali.
cbsn.ws/3WLvf7T
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A Texas father who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years with no criminal record was finishing his night shift as an Uber driver when immigration agents detained him.
Without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge, he was put on a plane and sent first to Ghana, a country where he had no ties. He was then sent to his home country, despite a determination by a U.S. immigration court judge that he could not be deported there due to likely persecution. cbsn.ws/3Ude66r
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This is known as “chain refoulment” and it’s a violation of both U.S. and international law.
Within five days of being deported from the U.S., Moussa Diawara says Ghanaian officials forced him onto a flight to Mali, the very country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to. Diawara says he was homeless and went into hiding.
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Armed and in uniform, agents from the Department of Homeland Security have been knocking on doors to ask residents about their immigration status whether they're registered to vote. cbsn.ws/4yzObDZ
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Fuck the Atlanta Police Department and all police everywhere! #StopCopCity
Breaking: The director of the Atlanta’s police academy, Cop City is under internal investigation connected to domestic violence allegations from a Barrow County dispute and was temporarily relieved of duty and stripped of his gun and badge.
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BREAKING: An Arizona man has been freed from jail in Equatorial Guinea, after weeks of being held incommunicado, without charges. Ahmed Soliman, of Phoenix, is now back at a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, with more than 20 other US deportees. tucson.com/news/local/border…
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Amidst continued abuses by ICE, @ICEFlightM shines a light on an opaque, cruel system of removal flights occurring without due process, often to places where people are at serious risk. People should never be sent to places where they face grave harm.
“Many of us have been separated from our families,”says an open letter from 45 detained immigrants as dozens more joined the hunger strike.“We have missed births, funerals, years of our lives while sitting behind fences without having committed any crime.” theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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1 year ago this morning ICE/FBI drew guns on DACA recipient Yaakub Vijandre & arrested him. DHS says he's a "terrorist" bc of social media posts opposing genocide & defending detainee rights. Detained for one year & counting.
Opposing US/Israel gvm't ≠ terrorism! Free Yaakub!
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Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees."
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This is a terrible answer, because many of these poeple have WON protection against removal to their home countries due to persecution or torture.
So what Homan is saying is "accept being persecuted or tortured in your home country or we'll send you to a third country instead."
Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, said people in the U.S. illegally can avoid being sent to “third countries” in Africa and other places around the world by self-deporting to their home countries.
“There’s your quick answer. If you self-deport … you're 100% likely to go to your home country,” Homan told CBS News’ @camiloreports.
This past week, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue its third-country deportation effort.
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The Trump administration is now trying to prosecute some of the activists in Minneapolis who coordinated their opposition to ICE detentions via the encrypted messaging app Signal. trib.al/18Veqk3
