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DHS Seeks Sanctions on Countries that Refuse Deportees
The agency says people facing deportation have been released from detention because their home countries have blocked their return.
By Alan Neuhauser, Staff Writer | Aug. 23, 2017, at 6:20 p.m.
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DHS Seeks Sanctions on Countries that Refuse Deportees
The Department of Homeland Security is asking the State Department to sanction four countries that have consistently refused to readmit people facing deportation from the U.S.
The request, made by acting Secretary Elaine Duke in a letter last week, comes after immigration authorities have been forced to release people who are in the U.S. illegally because their home countries declined to issue the necessary travel documents for their return, DHS spokesman David Lapan said at a press briefing Wednesday.
"You may have individuals from foreign countries that have committed crimes in the United States and been convicted – in some cases have served sentences – and when they’re released from prison they remain in the United States because their countries won’t take them back," Lapan said.
He later allowed that there were also many immigrants released under such circumstances who had not committed any crimes and who were detained on civil immigration violations.
Lapan would not identify which nations are facing sanctions, but they are among a list of 12 so-called "recalcitrant countries" identified by DHS: Burma, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Guinea, Hong Kong, Iran, Laos, Morocco, South Sudan and Vietnam.
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We are sanctioning 4 of the above 12 countries, apparently, it's not clear what countries are being sanctioned.
