Biden admin brings illegal immigrants from Cameroon back to US after Trump successfully deported them: report

The Biden administration has begun flying illegal immigrants from Cameroon who had been deported during the Trump years back into the United States. The move comes as illegal immigration and border security has been a top issue for many Americans.

Just how many Cameroonians have been re-admitted into the US has not been revealed, however, internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memos obtained by the Washington Free Beacon revealed that a total of 28 are slated to return. It appears to be a response to a Human Rights Watch report that claimed dozens of the African asylum seekers had allegedly suffered at the hands of their government upon returning home. The outlet reported that the official rationale for the return was to avoid a “potential lawsuit,” however, no court ordered their return to the US.

According to the outlet, sources said the Biden administration has flown the migrants back into the US via a number of different airports in an attempt to prevent the public from witnessing them all in one group. Former ICE chief of staff Tom Blank told the Free Beacon that the report should not influence decisions made by a federal agency. "These individuals were deported by the order of a court after they were afforded all due process rights," he argued. "For DHS to arbitrarily reverse court orders to satisfy complaints from an activist group makes a joke out of the entire legal immigration process. It looks like outside activist groups now run the DHS immigration process instead of the courts."

In its report, Human Rights Watch accused the US of violating the "principle of nonrefoulement," noting that the Cameroon government allegedly “subjected returned deportees and members of their families to serious human rights violations including rape, torture and other physical abuse, arbitrary arrest and detention, inhuman and degrading treatment in detention, extortion, and threats."

Memos reviewed by the Free Beacon show that an ICE official was working with outside non-profit groups to help the Cameroonian immigrants return to the US. One email showed that the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Texas A&M University, Fatma Marouf, was informing the ICE official when the returning Cameroonian illegal immigrants would arrive back in the US.