The reported decision to send U.S. deportees to Equatorial Guinea, a country to which many have no connection, raises profound moral and human rights concerns.
Reports indicate that the United States provided a large payment to Equatorial Guinea to accept these migrants, making this policy even more disturbing.
Ahmed Soliman, an Egyptian asylum seeker, and Samson Birhane, from Eritrea, are among those reportedly subjected to detention and harsh treatment after being sent there.
Sending vulnerable people to a distant country where they have no meaningful connection leaves them exposed to excessive abuse and, potentially, even death.
No amount of money can justify treating human beings as unwanted cargo to be transferred beyond the protection of their own legal systems.
Such cruelty violates the fundamental religious and moral teachings shared by people of all faiths: compassion, mercy, justice and respect for human dignity.
The greatest tragedy is that a nation that claims to uphold human rights could participate in conduct so fundamentally opposed to these values.
Abandoning vulnerable human beings to possible abuse is not merely anti-humanity.
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