UNDER OBAMA, ASYLEES WERE CAGED FOR YEARS AND DEPORTED TO ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH
Deporting asylum seekers is nothing new.
The Obama administration deported 85 Muslim asylum seekers from Bangladesh, India and Nepal who were seeking asylum after fleeing repression and violence in their home countries.
Some of the men deported from Corrections Corporations of America’s Florence Correctional Center in Arizona had participated in a series of hunger strikes last year to protest their ongoing detention by ICE, the Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency, and demanded their release from for-profit detention centers.
Some of the men had been detained for years.
After the deportation, Fahd Ahmed, executive director of a New York-based organization of South Asian immigrant workers and youth said, "The Obama administration deported nearly 100 South Asian detainees who crossed three continents seeking safety in the U.S. What happens to them is blood on his hands."
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