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Deported to Death: What It Means to ‘Go Back’ to Somalia

THE POINT OF NO RETURN

The process was long and began under Obama, but under Trump everything speeded up. After years in detention, Ahmed Salah Hassan was rushed back to the failed state he had fled.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia—Ahmed Salah Hassan walked across Africa and Latin America to get to the United States. He traversed nearly 20 national borders, hiked the Darién Gap—a 60-mile patch of untamable jungle and swamp—and braved the checks at the U.S.

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