Refoulement is returning someone to where they’ll be persecuted. Chain refoulement is sending someone to a country which will then return them to where they’ll be persecuted. Both are violations of the Refugee Convention and the Convention Against Torture.
July 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Refoulement is returning someone to where they’ll be persecuted. Chain refoulement is sending someone to a country which will then return them to where they’ll be persecuted. Both are violations of the Refugee Convention and the Convention Against Torture.
An exceptionally cruel removal trip, even by ICE's low standards: The chain refoulement of Ukrainians to Poland and Russians to Moldova, fuel stop in Romania, then deports to Armenia and Uzbekistan (the latter could also include chain refoulement). Migrants have been shackled for at least 36 hours.
UPDATE: The ICE deportation flight (OAE2124) has also stopped in Armenia and Uzbekistan after likely refueling in Romania following the the Moldova stop.
May 1, 2026 at 2:24 PM
An exceptionally cruel removal trip, even by ICE's low standards: The chain refoulement of Ukrainians to Poland and Russians to Moldova, fuel stop in Romania, then deports to Armenia and Uzbekistan (the latter could also include chain refoulement). Migrants have been shackled for at least 36 hours.
OMG, there’s actually legal action on alleged chain refoulement? Fascinating.
A new lawsuit claims the Trump administration tried to bypass deportation restrictions by flying people out of the U.S. on a military aircraft to Ghana, which would then send them on to their home countries, even though U.S. judges had found they could not be forced to return there.
September 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
OMG, there’s actually legal action on alleged chain refoulement? Fascinating.
"Wait, I thought chain refoulement was against US and international law???"
Yeah dude, it is!
Yeah dude, it is!
May 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM
"Wait, I thought chain refoulement was against US and international law???"
Yeah dude, it is!
Yeah dude, it is!
With reports of Trump admin. plan to send migrants to Libya
This analysis by @becingber.bsky.social @scott-roehm.bsky.social is relevant
"Non-refoulement is ... codified in US statutes. It prohibits States from transferring...person would be at risk of certain serious human rights violations."
This analysis by @becingber.bsky.social @scott-roehm.bsky.social is relevant
"Non-refoulement is ... codified in US statutes. It prohibits States from transferring...person would be at risk of certain serious human rights violations."
Non-Refoulement Obligations and the Alien Enemies Act Removals
Non-refoulement prohibits states from removing from their jurisdiction any person who could be at risk of human rights violations.
www.justsecurity.org
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
With reports of Trump admin. plan to send migrants to Libya
This analysis by @becingber.bsky.social @scott-roehm.bsky.social is relevant
"Non-refoulement is ... codified in US statutes. It prohibits States from transferring...person would be at risk of certain serious human rights violations."
This analysis by @becingber.bsky.social @scott-roehm.bsky.social is relevant
"Non-refoulement is ... codified in US statutes. It prohibits States from transferring...person would be at risk of certain serious human rights violations."
🧊 REFOULEMENT 😲
The complaint alleges that Ghana is “facilitating removals to unsafe countries.”
The complaint alleges that Ghana is “facilitating removals to unsafe countries.”
July 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM
🧊 REFOULEMENT 😲
The complaint alleges that Ghana is “facilitating removals to unsafe countries.”
The complaint alleges that Ghana is “facilitating removals to unsafe countries.”
Sent from the US Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where ICE has expelled dozens of people with no ties to the country, where they are imprisoned in a government compound and pressured into chain refoulement. Many are queer asylum-seekers; homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon.
September 26, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Sent from the US Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where ICE has expelled dozens of people with no ties to the country, where they are imprisoned in a government compound and pressured into chain refoulement. Many are queer asylum-seekers; homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon.
Le « pushback », ou « refoulement », est une pratique aussi dangereuse et inhumaine qu'illégale 🛑
December 11, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Le « pushback », ou « refoulement », est une pratique aussi dangereuse et inhumaine qu'illégale 🛑
Refoulement
JUST IN: A judge concludes the Trump administration sent a man to Mexico to sidestep protections against torture.
He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
September 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Refoulement
Chain refoulement experts, weigh in! @daralind.bsky.social @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @qjurecic.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Chain refoulement experts, weigh in! @daralind.bsky.social @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @qjurecic.bsky.social
Le « pushback », ou « refoulement », est une pratique aussi dangereuse et inhumaine qu'illégale 🛑
March 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Le « pushback », ou « refoulement », est une pratique aussi dangereuse et inhumaine qu'illégale 🛑
Refoulement
Equatorial Guinea is among dozens of countries that have signed often-opaque "third-country removal" agreements with the Trump admin to accept U.S. deportees who can’t be returned to their home countries. But those third countries often send deportees home anyway, in violation of international law.
August 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Refoulement
SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...
NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:04 AM
SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...
Xinis: Government can right that ship by showing me if Uganda has made those representations of non-refoulement, etc. But at least at this juncture, I have nothing that demonstrates that the government is operating in good faith...
August 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Xinis: Government can right that ship by showing me if Uganda has made those representations of non-refoulement, etc. But at least at this juncture, I have nothing that demonstrates that the government is operating in good faith...
Immigration expert witness confused by the concept of chain refoulement
Rand: I understand that but there's no check that the 3rd country won't send them on to country of withholding?
Giles: Sir I don't understand your question. These people are sent to the country where they are given their notice of removal to go to
Giles: Sir I don't understand your question. These people are sent to the country where they are given their notice of removal to go to
July 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Immigration expert witness confused by the concept of chain refoulement
I do appreciate that _someone_ in US government understands the concept of chain refoulement
May 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I do appreciate that _someone_ in US government understands the concept of chain refoulement
- AP News - “Trump administration has floated deporting third-country nationals to Africa. Here’s what we know”
- The Verge - “The brutal realities of ICE Air”
- Convention Against Torture (Article 3) -Official UN text confirming the non‑refoulement obligation
- The Verge - “The brutal realities of ICE Air”
- Convention Against Torture (Article 3) -Official UN text confirming the non‑refoulement obligation
July 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
- AP News - “Trump administration has floated deporting third-country nationals to Africa. Here’s what we know”
- The Verge - “The brutal realities of ICE Air”
- Convention Against Torture (Article 3) -Official UN text confirming the non‑refoulement obligation
- The Verge - “The brutal realities of ICE Air”
- Convention Against Torture (Article 3) -Official UN text confirming the non‑refoulement obligation
Por que choras, non-refoulement? 🤨
Olha que absurdo: Trump enviou dois imigrantes para o Sudão do Sul, um país vivendo uma violentíssima guerra civil/imperialista.
Os dois homens são do sudeste asiático e não tem nada a ver com o Sudão do Sul ou a África.
Os dois homens são do sudeste asiático e não tem nada a ver com o Sudão do Sul ou a África.
May 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Por que choras, non-refoulement? 🤨
Deporting people to destinations where they face substantial risk of #torture or serious harm is flatly against the law, write @becingber.bsky.social & @scott-roehm.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/109284/non-r...
www.justsecurity.org/109284/non-r...
Non-Refoulement Obligations Under the Alien Enemies Act
Non-refoulement prohibits states from removing from their jurisdiction any person who could be at risk of human rights violations.
www.justsecurity.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Deporting people to destinations where they face substantial risk of #torture or serious harm is flatly against the law, write @becingber.bsky.social & @scott-roehm.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/109284/non-r...
www.justsecurity.org/109284/non-r...
textbook anti-refoulement violation, and yet no one will be punished for it.
September 26, 2026 at 6:27 PM
textbook anti-refoulement violation, and yet no one will be punished for it.
Critical to enabling Australia to circumvent its non-refoulement obligations
I had a productive meeting with Nauru’s President Adeang today in Canberra - the relationship between our countries is critical on a range of issues.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Critical to enabling Australia to circumvent its non-refoulement obligations
Der erste Link war kaputt: fluchtforschung.net/umgehung-des...
Umgehung des Refoulement-Verbots oder Kampf gegen ‚illegale Migration’? – Netzwerk Fluchtforschung
fluchtforschung.net
May 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Der erste Link war kaputt: fluchtforschung.net/umgehung-des...
During Next Reconstruction, we will make *non-refoulement* an essential term in US civic vocabulary.
February 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM
During Next Reconstruction, we will make *non-refoulement* an essential term in US civic vocabulary.
This is such a bald-faced that all of Fernando Burgos’s pants must’ve turned to ash by now.
When I said in my @onthemedia.bsky.social interview that the Trump admin is pretending they don’t know what’s happening, this is what I’m talking about.
When I said in my @onthemedia.bsky.social interview that the Trump admin is pretending they don’t know what’s happening, this is what I’m talking about.
August 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This is such a bald-faced that all of Fernando Burgos’s pants must’ve turned to ash by now.
When I said in my @onthemedia.bsky.social interview that the Trump admin is pretending they don’t know what’s happening, this is what I’m talking about.
When I said in my @onthemedia.bsky.social interview that the Trump admin is pretending they don’t know what’s happening, this is what I’m talking about.