'We don't know what will happen to us': U.S. deportees in limbo in DRC

NPR | By Emmet Livingstone

Published April 28, 2026 at 4:11 AM EDT

Fifteen South American migrants and asylum seekers were recently deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an African country they have no ties to.

Emmet Livingstone

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