"There are big snakes here, and scorpions!"
"My stomach is really hurting, and we have to beg for food,"
"We fear we'll be tortured and killed."
"I have five U.S.-citizen children, and they don't know where their father is,"
A WhatsApp video call revealed eleven people locked inside a secretive detention camp in a forest in Ghana. The detainees reported snakes, scorpions, severe hunger, and fear of torture and death while an armed guard watched them. The site, Bundase Training Camp, lies about forty miles from Accra. Many detainees had lived and worked in the United States and had legal protections that should bar deportation. Individuals included a Miami-based political refugee from Liberia, a UPS worker from Chicago, and a young woman who fled Togo fearing genital mutilation. Several were taken from the United States against their will.
Read at The New Yorker
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