Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.

The videos obtained by the News4 I-Team are raising questions from her family about how people are treated after they are deported from the U.S. to countries other than their countries of origin.

The videos obtained by the News4 I-Team are raising questions from her family about how people are treated after they are deported from the U.S. to countries other than their countries of origin.

As part of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, dozens of deportees have been sent from the U.S. to Africa since this summer, NBC News reported.

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    Alghali was required to check in every year with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement.

    Crazy that this is even a requirement for someone who has been in the country 30 fucking years. America’s immigration system has been a land-mine for people like this for decades. Trump’s out here shoving people onto it, but you gotta wonder why we laid the groundwork for this kind of fascist mass arrest/deportation to begin with.

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      Man, this has been in the works so long all the billionaire ghouls and the petite burgerboisies are absolutely cumming every second right now.

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      I’m a resident of a foreign country and I have to do an annual online check in and pay some fee, like $20.

      I forgot to do it the first year, but it was not a big deal. I just had to pay a late penalty.

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          they said they’re an immigrant to a country other than the US, as proof of how it’s done with some level of sense in most of the world.

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            proof of how it’s done with some level of sense

            So long as the government refuses to naturalize a long term resident, it reserves the right to kidnap and exile them for any reason or none at all.

            That isn’t sensible in any real sense. It is simply a threat that goes unfulfilled.

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    the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program

    That’s not deportation, it’s forced exile.

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    The I-Team asked her son if she felt that the U.S. had failed his mom.

    So, just how much paint do you have to drink before they let you graduate from journalism school?

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    I think at this point, probably easier to adopt a psuedonym, and avoid feds at all costs.

    If you at least expect them coming for you, you can fight on your own terms with your community close by.