Alligator Alcatraz 4547!! wrote:
The art of the deal.
The Trump administration this winter secured a secret deal with the government of Cameroon to deport hundreds of migrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against protesters there and withholding $30 million from a local United Nations office, according to officials and U.S. government documents.
The deal is part of a broader Trump administration campaign to coax countries to accept migrants who cannot be legally deported from the United States to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the United States uses to engineer such agreements.
Cameroon – which is a lower middle income country but growing – doesn't want to take "refugees" or "asylees". Why should we?
But a spokesman for UNHCR said the $30 million had not been earmarked to help the deportees apply for asylum or be resettled. And the Cameroonian foreign office representative flatly told the group, “You are not refugees, you cannot seek refugee status in Cameroon.”
