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January 19, 2021

Last-Minute Trump Admin Deportations Target Black Immigrants
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In immigration news, advocates are denouncing the Trump administration's
ongoing deportation of asylum seekers just days before Biden's
inauguration. The Guardian reports there are concerns deportation
flights to Africa could depart the U.S. as late as today. Last year,
dozens of asylum seekers from Cameroon accused Immigration and Customs
Enforcement of torturing them and coercing them into signing their
deportation order.

This comes as a 40-year-old man from Saint Martin is scheduled to be
deported today to Haiti, even though he has never been to Haiti and has
lived in the U.S. since he was 5 years old.


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