#Cameroon has, for more than 4 decades, been led by a strongman president, Paul Biya. The #Trump admin opted not to criticize his disputed re-election in October, & said nothing afterward when security forces waged a deadly crackdown on #protesters.

That gave the #US leverage weeks later, diplomats wrote, when it came time to negotiate a #deportation deal.

#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess

The documents obtained by NYT include confidential #State Department correspondence & a funding memo, which connects the money transfer [ #bribe] to the #Cameroon #deportation arrangement. The files, coupled with confirmation from officials, reveal how the #US government used financial pressure [ #extortion] & political incentives to secure a deal that the deportees’ lawyer compared to “selling people.” [ #slavery]

#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #HumanRights #DueProcess #Trump

The deal is part of a broader #Trump admin campaign to coax countries to accept immigrants who cannot be legally deported from the #US to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the US uses to engineer such agreements.

#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary

The #Trump admin this winter secured a secret deal with the government of #Cameroon to deport hundreds of immigrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against #protesters there ‘ withholding $30 million from a local #UN office, acc/to officials & US government documents.

#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary

#GiftArticle

In Secret #Deportation Deal, US Leveraged Favors & Funds

In #Cameroon, the #Trump admin found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.

#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/africa/in-secret-deportation-deal-us-leveraged-favors-and-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.9f1u.08JDzNwmeWqy&smid=nytcore-ios-share

“The weight of that calculation is the same weight for every single survivor in the farm worker industry. They’re not thinking about the movement, but they’re thinking about: ‘Will my family be able to work next year?’ ‘Will I be abandoned in the field?’ ‘Will I be killed?’” https://www.texasobserver.org/dolores-huerta-fear-farmworkers-advocates/

#farming #agriculture #politics #USpol #labor #workers #HumanRights

(CW: Descriptions of workplace sexual assault)

“The weight of that calculation is the same weight for every single survivor in the farm worker industry. They’re not thinking about the movement, but they’re thinking about: ‘Will my family be able to work next year?’ ‘Will I be abandoned in the field?’ ‘Will I be killed?’” https://www.texasobserver.org/dolores-huerta-fear-farmworkers-advocates/

#farming #agriculture #politics #USpol #labor #workers #HumanRights

(CW: Descriptions of workplace sexual assault)

Whether you are concerned or not about the harm caused by the technologies pushed on us with the current AI Hype, I highly recommend watching this excellent interview by 404 Media's @samleecole with @alex and @emilymbender from the DAIR Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZiuH-1QY

And I say "whether you are concerned or not" because this will affect you one way or another, whether you care about it or not. In fact, it very likely already does.

#AI #NoAI #DigitalRights #HumanRights

Whether you are concerned or not about the harm caused by the technologies pushed on us with the current AI Hype, I highly recommend watching this excellent interview by 404 Media's @samleecole with @alex and @emilymbender from the DAIR Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZiuH-1QY

And I say "whether you are concerned or not" because this will affect you one way or another, whether you care about it or not. In fact, it very likely already does.

#AI #NoAI #DigitalRights #HumanRights

Out today: Jill Barganier, a petite blond mother of three from the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, has been asked many times over the past three decades to recall what she saw from her window on January 29, 1998. ... https://www.texasobserver.org/riding-shotgun-the-unforgotten-podcast/

#podcast #audio #TrueCrime #law #police #DeathPenalty #prison #HumanRights #politics #UsPOL #Texas

New! Michelle Pitcher of the Observer teamed up with Free Range Productions to create "The Unforgotten: Riding Shotgun," a true crime #podcast about potential wrongful convictions, hypnosis, and the death penalty.

Check out this preview: https://www.texasobserver.org/riding-shotgun-the-unforgotten-podcast/

#DeathPenalty #law #TrueCrime #audio #news #politics #USpol #Texas #prison #HumanRights

Last week from Trudy Taylor Smith of Children's Defense Fund-Texas: We feel grief as we watch lives and families torn apart, and the horror unfolding around us takes a toll on our emotional and even physical health.

We must meet those feelings with collective action. https://www.texasobserver.org/we-must-end-family-detention-in-texas/

#ICE #immigration #children #HumanRights #Texas #politics #USpol #fascism #Trump