00:00This hotel in Equatorial Guinea is housing dozens of deported migrants from the United States.
00:05The Bami Hotel has been housing deportees against their will despite a court order in the United States barring their
00:12relocation.
00:13But of the at least 32 people held there since November, all of whom had previously been granted protection from
00:20U.S. judges,
00:21their lawyers said 25 have been forced to return to their home countries across Africa where their lives might be
00:28in danger.
00:28The rest face pressure from authorities to live under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration.
00:37Equatorial Guinness President Yedoro Biangema has turned this hotel on by his family into a prison for asylum seekers deported
00:44from the United States.
00:45The administration uses deportation to third country as a legal loophole.
00:50Immigration lawyers say to indirectly force asylum seekers back home.
00:55Under a series of Marky and Oven secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported thousands of people to nearly two
01:02dozen countries that are not their own.
01:04The country's agreements are mostly in the developing world, including roughly a dozen in Africa.
01:09Experts say countries accepting the deportation may be doing so to earn goodwill in negotiations with the U.S. over
01:16trade, migration or aid.
01:18The people who are not going to choose for asylum seekers back home.
01:20A decade ago there was a series of four-year-old revרטions and a couple of people who'd come in
01:20their own.
01:20The facility of U.S. and The President of the United States
01:20The U.S. and the U.S. and the U.S. thinking of the U.S. in the US.
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