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Trump’s deportations to third countries violate human rights, UN experts warn
The Guardian • • nation
Key Points:
- UN human rights experts warn that the US deportation of thousands of migrants to third countries is causing widespread human rights violations, with potentially deadly consequences for vulnerable individuals.
- Since 2025, the US government has paid 35 countries, many in Africa, to accept migrants and asylum seekers with no ties to those nations, leading to forced relocations to unfamiliar and often unsafe environments.
- Experts highlight risks including torture, ill-treatment, trafficking, and discrimination faced by deportees, some of whom are sent to conflict-ridden countries lacking the capacity to protect their rights.
- The US administration defends the policy as targeting criminals, but investigations reveal cases of asylum seekers, including political dissidents and LGBTQ+ individuals, being deported to dangerous situations.
- Human rights advocates criticize the policy for circumventing US legal protections against returning people to persecution and call for immediate halting of these deportations to safeguard migrants' lives and dignity.
