The United States conducted a deportation operation on Saturday that transported multiple individuals to the Central African Republic, according to statements from immigration lawyers and human rights organizations. Among those deported was an Afghan man in his early twenties whose family members had supported U.S. military operations. The individual had previously received judicial protection against deportation to Afghanistan due to documented concerns about potential persecution by the Taliban.
The Afghan man’s family background involved significant connections to U.S. military efforts in the region. One brother currently resides in the United States and served in the Afghan National Army, which worked alongside U.S. forces before the Taliban’s assumption of power in 2021. Another brother, who had received pilot training from the U.S., was killed by Taliban forces. Court documents indicated that the family had received threats from the Taliban as a consequence of these military collaborations.
The deportation flight to Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, carried approximately 12 Afghans, eight Iranians, and several individuals from Nepal and Nicaragua. This represented the second such operation to that destination since June, with a previous flight having transported approximately two dozen migrants, including an Iranian woman reported to face persecution in her country of origin.
According to advocacy groups and immigration legal professionals, the Trump administration has executed similar deportations to approximately two dozen countries under often confidential agreements. Critics characterize these practices as circumventing standard legal procedures and potentially returning asylum seekers to nations from which they had previously fled. Immigration attorneys have raised concerns that these operations exploit legal loopholes to achieve deportation outcomes that might otherwise face judicial obstacles.
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