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More than a dozen independent United Nations (UN) human rights experts issued a formal communication to the US government, urging an immediate halt to third-country deportation policies that expose migrants to severe abuse, torture, and persecution.
Since last year, the Trump administration has established agreements with multiple African governments to accept non-citizens who cannot be lawfully repatriated to their home nations.
According to the experts, the US government has already deported at least 23,000 third-country nationals to 29 nations and territories, including individuals who had previously secured protection from US judges due to credible fears of persecution in their countries of origin.
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Human rights groups and UN monitors warned that the practice triggers “a cascade of human rights violations,” citing instances where deportees faced violence, such as police drawing firearms on migrants in Equatorial Guinea and the transfer of Iranian deportees to the Central African Republic.
“The harms caused by this US Government scheme are no longer hypothetical,” the experts stated, emphasising that “at gravest risk are children, women, persons with disabilities, victims of trafficking, LGBT persons, human rights defenders, stateless persons and other people in extremely vulnerable situations.”
The UN experts also extended their communication to 35 governments and territories that have agreed to receive US deportees.
While the US diplomatic mission in Geneva did not immediately respond to requests for comment, Washington has consistently defended the third-country arrangements as lawful executions of US immigration law.
The communication arrives as President Donald Trump petitions the US Supreme Court to overturn lower court rulings that declared the third-country deportation policy illegal.
