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US Sends Asylum Seekers to Sierra Leone, Legal Challenge Rises

6/20/2026

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United States began using Sierra Leone as a transit point for asylum seekers with a $1.5 million grant.
About a dozen deportees arrived in Freetown Thursday.
Sierra Leone hired Kenvah Solutions to house, feed and medically care arrivals, capped at 25 per month, 300 per year.
Immigration lawyers say the removals breach U.S. court orders and that rights attorneys have sued Equatorial Guinea before Africa’s top human-rights body over forced returns.

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United States began using Sierra Leone as a transit point for asylum seekers with a $1.5 million grant.
About a dozen deportees arrived in Freetown Thursday.
Sierra Leone hired Kenvah Solutions to house, feed and medically care arrivals, capped at 25 per month, 300 per year.
Immigration lawyers say the removals breach U.S. court orders and that rights attorneys have sued Equatorial Guinea before Africa’s top human-rights body over forced returns.