The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal [View all]

Source: AP

By MONIKA PRONCZUK
Updated 7:28 AM CST, February 22, 2026
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Being gay in Morocco is illegal and punishable by up to three years in prison. But it was the violence from her family that forced Farah, a 21-year-old gay woman, to flee the country.

After a long journey to the United States and a third-country deportation by the Trump administration, however, Farah said she is now back in Morocco and in hiding.

“It is hard to live and work with the fear of being tracked once again by my family,” she told The Associated Press, in a rare testimony from a person deported via a third country despite having protection orders from a U.S. immigration judge. “But there is nothing I can do. I have to work.”

She asked to be identified by her first name only for fear of persecution. The AP saw her protection order and lawyers verified parts of her account.



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