Imagine entering the US illegally and enjoying the fruits of the American economy for years, only to wake up one day in the darkest of Africa in a country known for cannibalism? The strategy might be ugly, but it might also be ingenious.
Last year, illegal Cuban immigrant Yasmany Moreno de Armas was working and living in Florida. He's now in the Central African Republic, after the Trump administration sent him and dozens of deportees to the deeply impoverished and conflict-ridden nation.
The 31-year-old said he only learned the U.S. government was deporting him to Africa after he arrived there in late July, alongside detainees from countries across the globe, including Ecuador, Honduras, Serbia, Russia and Vietnam.
"We cannot leave, we don't have documents and we're suffering and missing our families, in a continent we don't know..."
Armas claims he committed no crime, but he committed the crime of invading US borders without citizenship. The ongoing narrative from the political left is that this particular crime somehow doesn't count.
Illegals shipped to Africa are appealing to the media to plead their case, though there's not a whole lot anyone can do about their situation. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) the US government has the right to deport illegal migrants with expediency. And technically, ICE isn't required to take these migrants back to the countries they originally came from.
Cuban immigrant Yasmany Moreno de Armas says ICE never told him he was being deported to the Central African Republic, a deeply impoverished country that the State Department warns Americans not to vi
