Donald Trump’s administration appears to have deliberately deported five West African men to Ghana knowing they would be sent to “dire circumstances” in countries where they could be tortured or killed, according to a federal judge.
District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C. has determined that the Trump administration is engaged in a “pattern and widespread effort” to similarly deport immigrants to so-called “third” countries, only to have those countries send them elsewhere — despite U.S. court orders preventing that from happening.
