BREAKING🚨 Trump's government paid Rwanda $7.5 million to take 7 people. That is over $1 million a A PERSON to dump deportees in a country that isn't even theirs. The deportation network now reaches at least 14 African nations, and many of the people shipped there in shackles had U.S. court protection from torture. Between January 2025 and August 2026, the U.S. sent more than 500 people to African countries where they aren't citizens. That comes from ICE's own data, analyzed in a Human Rights Watch report released today. Worldwide, nearly 28,000 people have been sent to more than 50 countries that aren't their own. Many of them had already won protection from a U.S. immigration judge because they would likely be tortured or persecuted at home. ICE arrested them at routine check-ins. One woman was taken into custody while her five-year-old daughter was with her. She was deported to Cameroon. Tesfay T. is a 35-year-old Ethiopian who was tortured in his home country. He refused to sign his deportation papers. He says the ICE agent told him, "I don't care, I'm going to sign it myself." His hands, waist and legs stayed chained for the whole flight, even when he used the bathroom. He found out where he was going when he landed in Cameroon. An unnamed U.S. official told Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff why places like Eswatini were picked: "The point is to scare people." DHS calls these removals "an essential public safety tool" for getting rid of "the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens." Yet 16 of the first 17 people sent to Cameroon had U.S. court orders blocking their return home. Senate Democrats found more than $32 million went to five foreign governments. Rwanda got $7.5 million and took seven people, which works out to about $1.1 million each. Equatorial Guinea's $7.5 million was more than all U.S. aid to that country over the previous eight years combined. People sent there were kept in a hotel under armed guard. At least a dozen LGBT people were sent to African countries that criminalize same-sex relationships. Some were refugees the U.S. had protected specifically because of their sexuality. Ghana sent at least 22 deportees back to their home countries, even though a U.S. judge had barred every one of them from being returned there. Rabbiatu Kuyateh, 58, had lived in Maryland for nearly 30 years when ICE detained her at a check-in. Ghana forcibly sent her back to Sierra Leone.