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Announcements Mar 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM

ICE Is Trying to Send Hundreds of New York’s African Asylum Seekers to a Country They’re Not From

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https://nysfocus.com/2026/03/18/ice-pretermissions-uganda-asylum-seekers
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WritesAndPrivileges Mar 25, 2026 +7
The article is somehow even crazier than the headline: >Over the last three months, ICE attorneys in New York state have petitioned to send half of the African asylum seekers who had immigration hearings to Uganda. HALF??? This is not isolated mistakes.
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PM_me_Henrika Mar 26, 2026 +1
They couldn’t name another African country. Uganda is on record but they were actually saying ‘Wakanda’
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Reddit_anon_man Mar 25, 2026 +3
"For two years, Modou had compiled evidence that, if the United States deported him to his home country of Senegal, he’d face persecution for marrying someone of a different faith. In his asylum application, he’d meticulously described the violence and death threats he’d faced, supporting his story with medical and government records, certificates, news articles, and testimony from family and friends. Yet in January, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer petitioned the judge in Modou’s case to throw out his claim before the court could even consider it. Instead of Senegal, ICE wanted to send Modou to Uganda, 4,500 miles from his home country. He’d never been to Uganda, or even thought of visiting. He and his lawyer scrambled; they had just a few weeks to argue a whole new case." Why?!? Truly what on earth is the argument?
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kia75 Mar 25, 2026 +2
The Cruelty is the point. They aim to be as cruel as possible. Trump's government will waste as much money, and do anything to hurt someone they think is vulnerable.
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Lonely_Noyaaa Mar 25, 2026 +2
These are asylum seekers who went through the actual legal process to be here. ICE is just an agency that decided laws are optional when they're inconvenient.
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Jafooki Mar 25, 2026 +3
Wouldn't be the first time the US sent Africans to a country they're not from
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TheLivingRoomate Mar 25, 2026 +1
It is purely punitive. As evidenced by their attempt to deport Kilmar Armando Ábrego García to Liberia rather than to previously-agreed-upon Costa Rica.
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BRIAUGPET Mar 25, 2026 +1
This is all Miller, right?
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Bootstrapper21 Mar 25, 2026 -1
It’s a confusing and biased headline, but the outcome kind of makes sense. By definition, an asylum seeker is seeking legal protection granted by a foreign state because they fear persecution or harm in their home country. Returning them to their home country to be persecuted or harmed would arguably be less humane than sending them to another country in the region. Not an apologist for ICE on any level, but trying to help make sense of the coverage here.
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