"I don't know that the piece you're contemplating is necessarily writable right now,"
"My stomach is really hurting, and we have to beg for food,"
"We fear we'll be tortured and killed,"
"And it fits this Administration's general pattern-draconian, cruel processes that create a spectacle and coerce people into leaving of their own accord."
In early September eleven people forcibly deported from the United States were flown to a secret detention camp in the forests of Ghana and made a video call reporting hunger and fear of torture. The Trump Administration deported scores of people, including longtime U.S. residents and individuals with no criminal records, to countries with which they had no known connection, such as Uzbekistan, South Sudan, Panama, Ghana, and Eswatini. Many deportees had previously received legal protection from return to their home countries due to credible risks of persecution, torture, or death. The Administration used a process called third-country removal to sidestep those protections, placing responsibility for detainees' safety outside U.S. control. Immigration advocates describe the practice as illegal, draconian, and coercive, and note that it has been kept largely hidden from the public.
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