DR Congo to receive ‘third-country’ deportees from the US under new deal

They are deporting people who have never been there have no lineage there and the country also just happens to be at war

Essentially contracting out the deportation so they send them to a hub then have the country handle the rest

The irony that my mom worked asylum case for the US in Congo. WTF would we be sending anyone there?

Sadly, this stuff started in 2016-2019. Covid slowed their rollout of this. I don’t know if the general population will now understand the this is why Kamala Harris said “don’t come here.”

If the deporting country is also at war, doesn't that just sort of cancel it out?

If the UK revives the Rwanda deal we can, between us, fund both sides of a bloody conflict in Africa. It'll be just like old times.

So Iran Contra but with people? 🤦🏿‍♂️

D R Congo will use the money to buy mansions and lands on the Mediterranean for the president’s family.

Imagine thinking the average American cares about this at all.

It’s the size of most of Europe, don’t paint it with such a broad brush. Parts like Kinshasa are fine, totally modern and urban and comparably safe to many large cities. But the East where the war is is indeed dangerous.

Lowest bidder probably

But have you considered how dangerous the people we're exporting are? /s

That's a feature not a bug. It will help deter people from wanting to try get access to the US if they know they might end up in Congo.

You must be new here?! Norm- and rule- breaking behavior has become the new normal and business as usual for at least a decade now. The news cycles are so short nothing matters more than a blip within a self contained 24hr window of mild lukewarm outrage. A global conspiracy of the wealthy and politically powerful to evade taxes and accountability was discovered in the Panama papers and all it led to was a journalist dead by a car bomb. No further consequences for the guilty. A global conspiracy of the wealthy and politically powerful to r*** children was discovered and 1) the state is still hiding most of the files and 2) no consequences have been suffered by anyone but the fall guy himself. A war has broken out for no apparent reason but spite and is costing lives and affecting the living costs of innocent civilians across the globe. You basically have to expect the worst and even then it definitely will get worse. That’s how it can be happening.

The law only applies if people are willing to enforce it. Enforcement for the president breaking the law is impeachment and we all saw how that went.

It's not legal per se, but the 'checks and balances' set up to prevent such illegal acts from occuring have been proven to be mostly a paper tiger at this point, and the leader of the US has spent his entire life doing whatever he wants with no consequences. EDIT: Basically the US is a failed state in the making and laws mean nothing if you have enough political power or enough wealth.

US says the person is to be deported, person responds they can't go back to where they are from since it isn't safe. US says okay we found you a different country to deport you to :\^).

It's legal in the US.

Acting like trump and his cronies give a shit.

Most third country migrants to the US come from central or southern America. The DR of Congo is in Africa, and as they are being deposited there with likely no money or resources, they are effectively stuck there now. Can’t exactly swim across the Atlantic.

So you say they have money on them? Yes, they certainly will be able to peacefully book a flight home in a defacto failed state with armed gangs and warlords controlling everything

If they can afford the flight

Do you Americans have brains? Somalia has a higher standard of living than Dr Congo. People trade and have normal lives. Those in Somalia live with their families and because of that have a normal life there. Deporting refugees from Somalia to dr Congo place with no family ties and being easily killed on sight is better? No matter how unstable a country is, when you have a family there, the survival is far better than in an unstable foreign country with war going on. 

Would they walk? Take Uber??? How exactly they could possibly "go back to home" even if we ignor reality and imagine that authorities upon receiving this cargo of useful slaves let them go?

When a country's official name contains "Democratic", you can bet it's not democratic.

I always refer to it as Doctor Congo.

I'll give you one better - DPRK

They’re basically a dentist, don’t be a PI

Same, sounds like a good name for a new James bond movie Not well versed on bond, but I don't believe he's had a mission to Africa yet.. let's get it done

Trump didn't expect white people protesting against ICE

You know there are vaccines also in Africa. It's not some middle ages place

The entirety of France is about the same size as Texas, the US is too big to organize until the majority of the populations lives are at stake, which will never happen. As long as the government maintains our bread and circuses the war crimes will continue and the pedophiles will keep amassing their fortunes. We're all overworked, underpaid and too f****** tired to enact actual change in our country.

Little bit of A, little bit of B. These are people who did not have documents claiming citizenship for the counties they said they came from to keep the US from knowing their actual identity for criminal reasons or to complicate them getting sent back, as it’s hard to refute an asylum case when you don’t know the persons circumstances. When the US tries to deport them, the stated home country refuses to accept them. The US has no obligation to hold them, and has set up these deals with other countries to take in the deportees.

But even criminals are humans and shouldn't be sent like a cargo wherever ICE wants.

There is a huge difference between going to Africa as a tourist and having to life there. DR kongo suffers from all kinds of human rights violations, crime, poverty, tropical disease

Are they going clubbing or to prison though?