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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Banchereau

More than half of Latin Americans deported from US to Congo are now back home

US Congo Deportations - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

More than half of the 15 Latin Americans deported in April to Congo under the Trump administration’s widely criticized crackdown on migrants have returned to their countries of origin, the Congolese government and one of their lawyers said Friday.

U.S. immigration judges have ruled they were likely to face persecution back home.

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