South American migrants deported to DRC say facing pressure to return home

Deported to a country they've never known, South American migrants of Congolese descent face coercion to abandon asylum claims. | Contesto: cronaca

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• South American migrants deported to DRC say facing pressure to return home

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In a controversial enforcement of U.S. immigration policy, dozens of South American migrants of Congolese descent have been deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a nation many have never visited, where they now report facing intense pressure from local authorities to sign documents renouncing their asylum claims and agreeing to return to their South American countries of origin. The deportations, which have occurred over recent months, involve individuals who had sought asylum at the U.S. southern border, only to be processed for removal to the DRC based on their ancestry. Rights organizations monitoring the cases have leveled a stark accusation against the Trump administration, claiming these third-country deportations are a deliberate tactic designed to intimidate asylum seekers and deter future migrants. Advocates argue that sending individuals to the DRC, a country grappling with severe instability and humanitarian crises, when their lives and families are rooted in South America, constitutes a form of coercion. The policy, they say, exploits the complexities of nationality and diaspora to effectively strand vulnerable people in a perilous limbo, far from any support network. The situation highlights a broader and increasingly utilized strategy of removing asylum seekers not to their countries of habitual residence or transit, but to nations that may acknowledge a technical citizenship link. For the affected migrants, many of whom are from families that fled the DRC generations ago, this link is often tenuous. They possess Congolese passports or eligibility for them, but their cultural, linguistic, and familial ties are entirely to South American nations like Chile, Brazil, or Argentina. Upon arrival in Kinshasa, deportees describe being met by Congolese immigration officials who, they allege, insist they sign forms stating they will return to South America, a process advocates describe as unlawful pressure. Legal experts point out that this practice raises profound human rights and legal questions. Forcibly returning an individual to a country where they may face persecution—a principle known as non-refoulement—is...

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