The Department of Homeland Security inadvertently tipped off the Cuban government this month that immigrants the agency sought to deport to the country had asked the U.S. for protection from persecution or torture.
The Department of Homeland Security inadvertently tipped off the Cuban government this month that some of the immigrants the agency sought to deport to the island nation had asked the U.S. for protection from persecution or torture, officials said Monday.
“The words egregious and illegal don’t go far enough,” Barnard said. “And this is not any foreign government, but a government we have irrefutable evidence routinely detains and tortures those they suspect of being in opposition to them.” Of the 103 Cubans that Homeland Security discussed with the Cuban government, 46 were affected by the leak.
Anwen Hughes, director of legal strategy at Human Rights First, has years of experience comforting asylum seekers who are worried that their home countries will find out about their applications.Hughes has long told her clients that they should feel secure that their information would be protected.“I don’t want to say things that won’t be true,” she said. “It is important that these assurances be meaningful.
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