ICE Deports Latin American Migrants to West Africa, Leaving Them Stranded

In a practice that stretches the boundaries of law and conscience, the United States government has been placing Latin American migrants — people whose lives, families, and futures were rooted elsewhere — onto planes bound for West Africa, countries they had never heard of and to which they have no connection. Framed by immigration authorities as third-country removals, the policy has left hundreds stranded on another continent, chained during transport and abandoned without resources, language, or recourse. It is a moment that asks an old and unresolved question: where does enforcement end an