Recording from Cleveland International Airport while traveling to represent an immigration client.

In this short update, I talk about a troubling policy currently being pursued by the United States: attempting to deport migrants to third countries they have no connection to, including Uganda.

The justification is that those countries will supposedly provide safe asylum processing. But that claim raises serious concerns.

Uganda is a country whose recent history includes the dictatorship of Idi Amin, during which roughly 300,000 people were killed. Relying on assurances that such governments will safely handle asylum seekers is difficult to take seriously.

This practice also raises legal concerns under the international law principle of non-refoulement, which prohibits sending people to places where they may face persecution.

A brief reflection from the road on how immigration policy is playing out in real cases.

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