US Deports Cuban Man to Africa, Calls it 'Humanitarian'
The U.S. government, ever the global arbiter of human rights, is now outsourcing its migration problems to Africa. This Cuban man, after languishing in U.S. detention, was not sent back to Cuba, nor offered asylum in the 'land of the free.' Instead, he was shipped off to Mauritania, a nation with its own history of human rights concerns, as part of a 'humanitarian transfer arrangement.' One might
wonder what makes a forced deportation to a foreign prison 'humanitarian.' This isn't about solving a migrant crisis; it's about making it disappear from public view, repackaged in euphemisms. The U.S. routinely lectures other nations on migrant treatment, yet here we have a hunger strike in an African prison, all courtesy of American policy. It's the kind of 'solution' that only a state with
unmatched geopolitical power can devise, turning desperate individuals into international hot potatoes.