The Trump administration’s practice of deporting immigrants thousands of miles – and sometimes oceans away – to countries where they have no ties must change, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. Immigration officers must give people who have been detained an opportunity to contest their deportation to a third-country, the court ruled.
In some cases, the Trump administration has spent millions of dollars to deport people who are originally from Spanish-speaking countries in Central and South America to countries in Africa where the primary languages might include French, Amharic, or Swahili.
