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Migrants describe violent deportation flight to Africa
Original: ‘I’d rather die here than in Africa’: Migrants describe violent deportation flight
Deported migrants say they endured violence and abuse aboard a deportation flight to Africa, with one telling the Los Angeles Times, 'I'd rather die here than in Africa.' Their accounts describe forcible restraints and fearful conditions during removal, raising new questions about how deportation operations are carried out and the treatment of people being expelled from the United States.
Why now: New firsthand accounts of violence on a deportation flight have drawn attention to US removal practices.
Los Angeles TimesUnited StatesAfricamigrants
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- ‘I’d rather die here than in Africa’: Migrants describe violent deportation flight · Los Angeles Times
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