The New York Times Magazine Features Novo Legal Group's Third-Country Deportation Work

The New York Times Magazine published a feature today on one of the most troubling developments in U.S. immigration enforcement: the deportation of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, where some remain imprisoned indefinitely without charges.

The story follows Roberto Mosquera, who arrived in the United States from Cuba as a child during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and was deported last year to Eswatini, a small monarchy in southern Africa he had never heard of. He has spent more than a year in a maximum-security prison there. He faces no criminal charges in Eswatini and has no apparent path to release.

Novo Legal Group Of Counsel Alma David represents Mr. Mosquera and several of the other men detained in Eswatini. Times reporter Nicholas Casey writes that he first learned of the case through her. As she told the Times, “People are disappearing into this no man’s land.”

These removals raise serious due process questions that are the subject of ongoing federal litigation. People are being sent, sometimes without a hearing, to countries where they have no legal status, no counsel, and no way home.

The full article is available at The New York Times.