Africa-Press. The New York Times reported that the United States deported nine people to Cameroon despite court orders that protected them.
The newspaper said the Trump administration secretly deported nine people to Cameroon, even though many of them had US legal protections against such action and none of them was from the African country.
Citing government documents and lawyers representing the deportees, the report said that several men and women sent to Cameroon on a flight on 14 January from Alexandria, Louisiana, did not know their destination until they were placed on a Department of Homeland Security aircraft and restrained with handcuffs and chains.
According to Reuters, the Department of Homeland Security, the US State Department, and Cameroon’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The administration of President Donald Trump has not announced any agreement under which Cameroon agreed to accept deportees from other countries.
