US ICE Deporting Anyone Granted Withholding of Removal
Persons granted “Withholding of Removal” have traditionally been safe from deportation as generally the government does not try to send people to 3rd countries not specified in the grant of withholding. That has changed.
Now, with countries being sanctioned for lack of cooperation with the US, and other countries being bribed by cash incentives, the government is trying deport all those persons granted withholding to third countries, despite the vicious social and financial costs often involved, destroying valuable employment and family stability.
Accordingly, it is now important for anyone granted Withholding with alternative relief from deportation, such as those with US citizen family, or with employers who might want to keep their employees, to pursue that relief.
Ironically, this is costing fabulous amounts of money and taking enormous resources that are needed to go after the alleged “worst of the worst” which everyone wants to have deported, and is an example of the hypocrisy of the current administration.
Deportees facing deportation to third countries are entitled to due process, a reasonable opportunity to contest the removal to another country on the normal grounds for asylum, and the torture convention, but many may not know or assert their rights. As with so many other initiatives by our current government, how these rights are being protected is an open issue.
