African States Shouldn’t Help the U.S. Endanger Refugees

Disembarking at an airport in Cameroon a few weeks ago, two Cameroonian women shook with fear. They had fled their country over a year before to seek asylum in the United States, but were summarily deported from the US to Equatorial Guinea, whose authorities sent them back to Cameroon. Both women had been previously granted ‘withholding of removal’ by US immigration judges based on the likelihood they would be persecuted in Cameroon.

‘We were very scared,’ one of the women told me. ‘The day before…