Meredyth Yoon

human rights lawyer. prison and border abolitionist. internationalism, socialism and freedom of movement. the end of U.S. imperialism everywhere

[Meredyth Yoon @mereyoon]

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! The people united will never be defeated! #ShutDownFIPC #AbolishICE

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

.@USATODAY publishes op-ed by ICE detainee Yaakub Vijandre. Please read/share:

"As I pulled out of my home on an otherwise ordinary October morning, I suddenly found myself surrounded by a dozen armed agents, 1 of them pointing a gun at my face, shouting obscenities."

Link 👇

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

This heartbreaking death is the 60th in detention under the Trump Administration and the second at Folkston Detention Center where hundreds of people are on hunger strike protesting cruel conditions and medical neglect. ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE now!

https://t.co/XEjOaZLmyd

[Meredyth Yoon @mereyoon]

Most of the people Trump has deported under these third-country agreements have no criminal record whatsoever.

[Secretary Markwayne Mullin @SecMullinDHS]

Thanks to these third-country agreements, we have been able to deport some of the worst criminal illegal aliens from the United States, including those who are so barbaric that even their home countries won’t take them back.

For far too long, illegal aliens ordered removed by a judge have avoided deportation simply because @DHSgov had no place to send them. Through engaging in fully legal third-country removals, the days of avoiding deportation are over. We will continue to use every tool at our disposal to make America safe again. The Trump Administration will NEVER apologize for putting the American people first and deporting dangerous criminals from our country.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Alex Pretti's father: Our son was shot and killed by the government, federal immigration agents, on January 24th, 2026. We learned about his death from the media as we saw him being shot repeatedly in the back after helping a woman from his community. This was not a protest that Alex was at. His hands were in the air, and his face was on the ground when he was executed by ICE agents. We know exactly what our eyes saw. No one from the federal government called us on that day. But they did go on TV to tell lies about Alex. No one has called us since. No one has recanted those lies.

[Meredyth Yoon @mereyoon]

Trump deported a Texas father who lived in the US for 25 years, raised two US-citizen children, and obtained work authorization. In 2012, he was granted refugee protections based on the likelihood he would face persecution in Mali.

Trump sent him to Mali anyway, by way of Ghana.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“It feels really empty without him,” says 16-year-old Corey Diawara, whose father was deported in July.

His father had lived in the U.S. for 25 years and had no criminal record. Moussa Diawara says he was deported without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge. He was eventually sent to Mali, a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for his safety.” DHS also questioned the credibility of Diawara’s arguments for fearing persecution in Mali. https://t.co/P6flp7Q41f

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

Huge tragedy! US citizen Tracy Gonzalez packed up to leave the country to join her husband in Mexico when the trailer w/ her possessions burst into flames on I-95. I known Tracy personally, such a powerful voice. Help if you can. Congress needs to act! https://t.co/ne1xQmV2GB

[Meredyth Yoon @mereyoon]

The US is systematically deporting people with refugee protections—including many with deep roots in the US—to countries that are swiftly returning them to countries where judges ruled they cannot be sent.

Honored to have contributed to this important story by @60Minutes

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“They sent him to Ghana, with full knowledge that Ghana is systematically deporting refugees back to the very countries they fled,” says immigration attorney Meredyth Yoon.

60 Minutes obtained the names of all the people on a flight that left Texas on July 30th and took deportees to three countries in Africa, including Ghana. Of the 19 deportees 60 Minutes reached who were sent to Ghana, 17 say they were then transported against their will to countries U.S. immigration judges ruled they should not be returned to. Moussa Diawara was one of them. The Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for [Diawara’s] safety.”

Yoon says the U.S. government was warned about Ghana’s conduct in a lawsuit last year. Despite this, the U.S. sent 10 more flights to Ghana, which Yoon believes is a violation of international law. https://t.co/M1eBc81YI7

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Texas dad deported by ICE to Ghana was then forced to go to Mali, a country that's unsafe for him, he says https://t.co/COykdDrKcA

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“It feels really empty without him,” says 16-year-old Corey Diawara, whose father was deported in July.

His father had lived in the U.S. for 25 years and had no criminal record. Moussa Diawara says he was deported without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge. He was eventually sent to Mali, a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for his safety.” DHS also questioned the credibility of Diawara’s arguments for fearing persecution in Mali. https://t.co/P6flp7Q41f

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“They sent him to Ghana, with full knowledge that Ghana is systematically deporting refugees back to the very countries they fled,” says immigration attorney Meredyth Yoon.

60 Minutes obtained the names of all the people on a flight that left Texas on July 30th and took deportees to three countries in Africa, including Ghana. Of the 19 deportees 60 Minutes reached who were sent to Ghana, 17 say they were then transported against their will to countries U.S. immigration judges ruled they should not be returned to. Moussa Diawara was one of them. The Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for [Diawara’s] safety.”

Yoon says the U.S. government was warned about Ghana’s conduct in a lawsuit last year. Despite this, the U.S. sent 10 more flights to Ghana, which Yoon believes is a violation of international law. https://t.co/M1eBc81YI7

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Moussa Diawara showed 60 Minutes his Department of Homeland Security-issued bag tags from his deportation flight listing Mali as his destination — a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to because he would likely face persecution.

DHS said in a statement that the “contractors” who filled out the bag tags “are not part of the process that determines…the destination.” A medication form that also included Mali, the agency said, was a “clerical error.” Ghana’s government declined to comment. https://t.co/Q3gwBPfPw0

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

60 Minutes obtained the names of 63 people on a deportation flight from Texas to West Africa. Of the 19 people we reached who were sent to Ghana, 17 say Ghana then transported them against their will to their home countries — places U.S. immigration judges had ruled they should not be returned to.

A Department of Homeland Security lawyer told 60 Minutes he was not aware of cases in which Ghana had sent deportees home against their will. He also said he believes third-country removals have prevented crimes and made Americans safer. https://t.co/iNOFiDCmif

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“I cannot call my wife; I can't contact my lawyer. I can't talk to no one. I tell them, ‘This is kidnapping. You guys kidnapped us.’”

Moussa Diawara was deported to Ghana, and says Ghana then sent him to his native Mali. A U.S. immigration judge previously ruled he could be deported, but not to Mali, where the judge ruled he would likely face persecution.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for his safety.” DHS also questioned the credibility of Diawara’s arguments for fearing persecution in Mali.
https://t.co/Mgw7Up53i5

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

A Texas father who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years with no criminal record was finishing his night shift as an Uber driver when immigration agents detained him.

Without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge, he was put on a plane and sent first to Ghana, a country where he had no ties. He was then sent to his home country, despite a determination by a U.S. immigration court judge that he could not be deported there due to likely persecution. https://t.co/2vMsbrSmr9

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is known as “chain refoulment” and it’s a violation of both U.S. and international law.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Armed and in uniform, agents from the Department of Homeland Security have been knocking on doors to ask residents about their immigration status whether they're registered to vote. https://t.co/lK9zZJblDy

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[Emily Bregel @EmilyBregel]

BREAKING: An Arizona man has been freed from jail in Equatorial Guinea, after weeks of being held incommunicado, without charges. Ahmed Soliman, of Phoenix, is now back at a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, with more than 20 other US deportees. https://t.co/YBxwrc2Avx