US Deports Migrants to Sierra Leone, Raises Human Rights Concerns

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Nine migrants were sent back to Sierra Leone, part of a larger U.S. deal with African and Latin American countries to host deportees. Despite initial plans for twenty-four, the number was reduced due to legal challenges. Sierra Leones government claims the deportees are settled, with U.S. funding for housing, food, and healthcare. The program allows for a…

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Nine migrants were sent back to Sierra Leone, part of a larger U.S. deal with African and Latin American countries to host deportees. Despite initial plans for twenty-four, the number was reduced due to legal challenges. Sierra Leones government claims the deportees are settled, with U.S. funding for housing, food, and healthcare. The program allows for a maximum of twenty-five deportees per month and three hundred per year, with a fourteen-day to thirty-day stay limit. This is not the first suc

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