Secret US Deportations: How Refugees Are Sold to Africa | The New Yorker
What if the United States, a country that promised to be a "sanctuary for the persecuted," is secretly transporting people to camps in Africa, circumventing its own laws and international law? This video offers an analytical investigation into the hidden system of US deportations to "third countries": Ghana, Eswatini, Ruanlu, and other countries where refugees find themselves without protection, without documents, and without a chance for justice.
We examine in detail how the secret deportation scheme works:
What is "removal to a third country" and how it violates the principle of non-refoulement and the Convention against Torture;
How the US Supreme Court, through its "shadow list," greenlit the secret flight program;
The stories of Orville, Jim, Miriam, and other people who were officially protected from deportation by US courts but were still secretly transported to camps in West Africa;
How media manipulation turns social workers and refugees into "violent criminals" in official press releases;
How lawyers and human rights activists are creating a "citizen's detective agency" to track secret charters using aviation data and finances;
The numbers behind hidden deals: how much the US pays El Salvador, Eswatini, Rwanda, and other countries to support deportees;
Why federal judges acknowledge that the government is shirking its legal obligations but remain powerless against the executive branch;
How this practice is dangerous for international law, democracy, and the refugee protection system worldwide.
This video is for those who want to understand the reality behind the headlines about the "fight against illegal immigration," how the US is building a shadow immigration policy, and why the destruction of legal guarantees in one country becomes a signal to authoritarian regimes around the world. Subscribe to the channel if you value in-depth investigations, international politics, human rights, the US immigration system, and real, not merely ostentatious, government accountability.
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