Judge Orders U.S. to Return 55-Year-Old Colombian After Illegal Congo Deportation
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Updated · The New York Times · May 14
Judge Orders U.S. to Return 55-Year-Old Colombian After Illegal Congo Deportation
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 14
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration likely broke the law by deporting Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata, 55, to the Democratic Republic of Congo in April and ordered her returned to the United States.
Congo had agreed to take some third-country deportees but refused Zapata on medical grounds, according to court records and a letter from the Congolese Interior Ministry obtained by The New York Times.
Zapata has diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypothyroidism, and Congo said it could not provide adequate care for those conditions.
The order is a rare judicial command to bring back a deportee and highlights White House pressure on ICE and the State Department to find countries willing to accept migrants who cannot be sent home.
One deportee was ordered back. What fate awaits hundreds of others sent away under the same controversial policy?
What happens to sick migrants deported to countries with collapsed healthcare systems?
What are the secret deals costing taxpayers millions to deport migrants to countries that do not want them?