Migration Equatorial Guinea US Deportees

Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea’s all-powerful president has turned a hotel owned by his family into a prison for asylum seekers deported from the United States. The asylum seekers' lawyers say they had previously been granted protection from U.S. judges. Of the at least 32 people imprisoned at the hotel since November, 25 have been forced back to home countries across Africa where their lives might be in danger. The rest face pressure from authorities to leave. The Trump administration uses deportations to third countries as a legal loophole, immigration lawyers say, to indirectly force asylum seekers back to their home countries.