Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.

The videos obtained by the News4 I-Team are raising questions from her family about how people are treated after they are deported from the U.S. to countries other than their countries of origin.

The videos obtained by the News4 I-Team are raising questions from her family about how people are treated after they are deported from the U.S. to countries other than their countries of origin.

As part of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, dozens of deportees have been sent from the U.S. to Africa since this summer, NBC News reported.

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      they said they’re an immigrant to a country other than the US, as proof of how it’s done with some level of sense in most of the world.

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        proof of how it’s done with some level of sense

        So long as the government refuses to naturalize a long term resident, it reserves the right to kidnap and exile them for any reason or none at all.

        That isn’t sensible in any real sense. It is simply a threat that goes unfulfilled.