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By MARK BANCHEREAU<\/strong><\/p>\n

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) \u2014 More than half of the\u00a015 Latin Americans deported in April to Congo\u00a0under the Trump administration\u2019s widely criticized crackdown on migrants have returned to their countries of origin, the Congolese government and one of their lawyers said Friday.<\/p>\n

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U.S. immigration judges have ruled they were likely to face persecution back home.<\/p>\n

Congo is one of at least eight African nations with which the U.S. has struck third-country deportation deals.<\/p>\n

Under a series of often-secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported thousands of people to nearly two dozen countries that are not their own, advocates say. Immigration lawyers said the\u00a0administration\u00a0uses deportations to third countries as a legal loophole to indirectly force asylum seekers back to their home countries.<\/p>\n

Alma David, a U.S.-based attorney representing one of the 15 migrants, said eight deportees have returned to their home countries in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Her client, a Colombian woman who\u00a0had described her conditions and uncertainty in Congo in an interview with The Associated Press, currently remains in the central African country, she said.<\/p>\n

Also still in Congos is fellow Colombian, Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata, despite a\u00a0federal judge ordering the Trump administration last month to bring her back to the U.S. She was deported to Congo even though it had refused to accept her because it could not care for her medical needs.<\/p>\n

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Four Peruvians and three Colombians returned home earlier this week, assisted by the International Organization for Migration, a U.N.-affiliated agency, David said.<\/p>\n

They returned via the IOM\u2019s Assisted Voluntary Return program, in which the IOM covers travel costs and logistics for migrants who consent to go back to their home countries, as an alternative to forced deportation.<\/p>\n

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The lawyer said the migrants had been granted protections against removal to their home country by U.S. federal courts, which ruled they were likely to face persecution if they returned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that they chose to return there anyway raises serious concerns that they likely felt backed into a corner because no viable alternative was presented to them,\u201d David said.<\/p>\n

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The IOM has said assisted voluntary returns are \u201cstrictly voluntary and based on free, prior and informed consent.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Colombian man returned to his home country on his own in recent days, David said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese developments confirm the strictly transitional, temporary, and time-limited nature of this mechanism, as announced from its launch,\u201d the Congolese government said in the statement. \u201cFurther departures will take place shortly as part of the implementation of the arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement comes on the same day as rights lawyers\u00a0filed a case against Equatorial Guinea before Africa\u2019s top human rights body, accusing the central African nation of forcing deportees from the U.S. back to their home countries in violation of their rights.<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Saleh Mwanamilongo in Bonn, Germany contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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