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Trump administration deports migrants from Middle East to Africa · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: The US official tells CBS News that Trump administration deported
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  Speaker 1: about twenty migrants from countries including Afghanistan and Iran today,
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  Speaker 1: sending them to this Central African Republic. An immigration lawyer
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  Speaker 1: says one of the deportees was an Iranian pro democracy
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  Speaker 1: activist who had received legal protection in the US. The
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  Speaker 1: State Department urges Americans not to go to the Central
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  Speaker 1: African Republic, citing armed conflict, violent crime, and kidnapping. CBS
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  Speaker 1: News Immigration correspondent Camilo Montoya Galvez has more and Kamilla,
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  Speaker 1: what else do.
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  Speaker 2: We know about these deportations, Well, Nicole, this is the
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  Speaker 2: latest front, if you will, in the Trump Administration's unprecedented
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  Speaker 2: efforts to deport thousands of people to so called third countries,
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  Speaker 2: meaning countries that are not their own.
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  Speaker 3: The administration has brokered agreements with several dozen nations across
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  Speaker 3: the globe, including in Africa and Latin America, so they
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  Speaker 3: can receive and accept people who are not their own citizens.
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  Speaker 3: We have seen the administration, for example, send hundreds of
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  Speaker 3: Venezuelans to Elsavodor to be in prisons at a notorious
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  Speaker 3: megaprism there. The administration has sent people to Aswatani in
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  Speaker 3: South Africa, also South Sudan and other African countries like Ghana, Cameroon,
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  Speaker 3: Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, to name a few. And the administration
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  Speaker 3: says that it is doing this nicole because many of
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  Speaker 3: these individuals may not have legal status in the US,
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  Speaker 3: but they do have protections from being sent back to
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  Speaker 3: their home countries because US and the GRECI judges have
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  Speaker 3: determined that they could face persecution if returned to their
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  Speaker 3: home countries. So in order to essentially bypass and circumvent that,
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  Speaker 3: the administration is then sending them to third countries. And
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  Speaker 3: the open question now is what happens to people from Afghanistan,
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  Speaker 3: people from Iran, people from Iraq, people from Armenia who
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  Speaker 3: are being sent to countries like the Central Africa Republic
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  Speaker 3: As was the case this week, there is no clear
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  Speaker 3: guidance from either country, the US or the Central African
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  Speaker 3: Republic nicole on what will happen next to these deportees.
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  Speaker 3: In some cases, some of the third countries have sent
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  Speaker 3: the deporties back to their home countries, even though again
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  Speaker 3: some of them have said that they fled those countries
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  Speaker 3: because of violence and persecution.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and in this particular case. I mean, why the
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  Speaker 1: Central African Republic, particularly if the US considers it one
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  Speaker 1: of the most dangerous places in the world.
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  Speaker 3: And just to underscore that point, I want to redo
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  Speaker 3: the travel advisory from the US State Department for the
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  Speaker 3: Central African country. It says, do not travel to the
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  Speaker 3: Central African Republic for any reason. US citizens are at
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  Speaker 3: risk due to unrest, crime, kidnapping, health, terrorism, and other threats.
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  Speaker 3: That is coming directly from the US State Department, which
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  Speaker 3: also instructs Americans who happened to be there for whatever
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  Speaker 3: reason to draft they will to make a proof of
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  Speaker 3: life protocol with loved ones and also even to leave
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  Speaker 3: DNA samples with medical providers in case their families Nicole
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  Speaker 3: need them for identification purposes. That is how dire the
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  Speaker 3: situation is in the African and the Central African Republic. Rather,
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  Speaker 3: according to again the US government, Now, why is the
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  Speaker 3: administration sending people to this country. We have been told
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  Speaker 3: by administration officials and also immigration policy analysts that even
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  Speaker 3: though these deportations are small in scale relatively speaking, they
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  Speaker 3: send a message of the terrance and that message, Nicole
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  Speaker 3: is that if you stay in the country illegally, or
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  Speaker 3: you are thinking about crossing the border illegally into the US.
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  Speaker 3: There is now a chance. It may not be a
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  Speaker 3: big chance, but it is still a chance that exists
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  Speaker 3: that you could be sent to a random country, including
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  Speaker 3: a country in Africa that, again the State Department says
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  Speaker 3: no one should be traveling to because of insecurity and violence.
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  Speaker 1: Do these migrants have any recourse or can they go
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else?
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  Speaker 3: It's unclear. The Central African Republic has released no details
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  Speaker 3: at all about what it plans to do with the
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  Speaker 3: deportees that have just been sent there by the US.
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  Speaker 3: Neither has the Trump administration or US officials. In some cases,
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  Speaker 3: African countries have housed deportees from the US and hotels.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them have been able to stay there in
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  Speaker 3: those countries, but many, in fact have been returned to
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  Speaker 3: their native countries. And again that is a concern for
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  Speaker 3: many advocates and human rights of service of service rather
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  Speaker 3: because many of these migrants again are alleging that they
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  Speaker 3: fled their home countries because of persecution and threats, and
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  Speaker 3: if they're forced to return they could be in danger.
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  Speaker 1: And then, given this precedent that's being set, should we
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  Speaker 1: expect more deportations to countries that the US has severe
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  Speaker 1: travel warnings for.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the Trump administration has made it abundantly clear and
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  Speaker 3: that if you are in this country illegally and cannot
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  Speaker 3: be deported to your native country, the US will find
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  Speaker 3: ways to support you somewhere else away from American soil,
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  Speaker 3: including countries with questionable human rights records, including South Sudan,
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which as you know,
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  Speaker 3: is currently dealing with a serious ebola outbreak. And so
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  Speaker 3: the administration says, yes, those third country deportations will continue
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  Speaker 3: for the time being.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Camilo Montoya Galvez, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: your reporting. As always,