The Trump administration has sent $7.5 million from the MRA, a Congress-apportioned fund dedicated to addressing the international refugee crisis, as a direct transfer to the government of Equatorial Guinea, reportedly as a payment for accepting third-country deportees from the US.
In a letter sent to the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Sen Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) raised concerns about the conditions in which the payment was carried out, calling it “highly unusual” and pointing at the recipient country’s history of corruption and human rights abuses.
Equatorial Guinea is located in Central Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea, and has been ruled since independence by the Nguema family, first as a totalitarian, extremely murderous regime by Francisco Macías Nguema – nicknamed the “African Pol Pot” – from 1968 to his overthrow in 1979 by his nephew Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has since presided the country. Obiang Nguema’s Equatorial Guinea remains one of the most repressive and corrupt countries in Africa, characterized by a nepotic rule and mass embezzlement, for which Obiang Nguema’s son and heir apparent Teodorín was convicted in absentia by a court in Paris, with the confiscation of €150 million in luxury cars and properties.
The deal with Equatorial Guinea is the latest to be inked as part of a push by the Trump administration to outsource the detention and deportation of immigrants deemed illegal by the United States to third countries. South Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, Ghana, El Salvador or eSwatini received deportees from third countries following payments by the Trump administration, some of them convicted criminals who were then imprisoned in the recipient countries’ jails, including in countries routinely condemned for severe human rights abuses.
Democratic lawmakers and aides also denounced the secrecy of the agreement, allegedly inked between Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Teodoro Obiang Nguema during a UN visit of the Equatoguinean President, accusing the Trump administration of only sharing the information to Republican congresspeople, leaving the Democratic delegation in the dark.
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What doesn’t get talked about enough is that the EU has been doing this same thing for a lot longer.
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The Trump administration has sent $7.5 million from the MRA, a Congress-apportioned fund dedicated to addressing the international refugee crisis, as a direct transfer to the government of Equatorial Guinea, reportedly as a payment for accepting third-country deportees from the US.
In a letter sent to the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Sen Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) raised concerns about the conditions in which the payment was carried out, calling it “highly unusual” and pointing at the recipient country’s history of corruption and human rights abuses.
Equatorial Guinea is located in Central Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea, and has been ruled since independence by the Nguema family, first as a totalitarian, extremely murderous regime by Francisco Macías Nguema – nicknamed the “African Pol Pot” – from 1968 to his overthrow in 1979 by his nephew Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has since presided the country. Obiang Nguema’s Equatorial Guinea remains one of the most repressive and corrupt countries in Africa, characterized by a nepotic rule and mass embezzlement, for which Obiang Nguema’s son and heir apparent Teodorín was convicted in absentia by a court in Paris, with the confiscation of €150 million in luxury cars and properties.
The deal with Equatorial Guinea is the latest to be inked as part of a push by the Trump administration to outsource the detention and deportation of immigrants deemed illegal by the United States to third countries. South Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, Ghana, El Salvador or eSwatini received deportees from third countries following payments by the Trump administration, some of them convicted criminals who were then imprisoned in the recipient countries’ jails, including in countries routinely condemned for severe human rights abuses.
Democratic lawmakers and aides also denounced the secrecy of the agreement, allegedly inked between Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Teodoro Obiang Nguema during a UN visit of the Equatoguinean President, accusing the Trump administration of only sharing the information to Republican congresspeople, leaving the Democratic delegation in the dark.
America first baby!
This is human trafficking
What doesn’t get talked about enough is that the EU has been doing this same thing for a lot longer.