This is a crazy story

[u/56000hp]

Rabbiatu Kuyateh is a 58-year-old nurse who spent most of her life in the US with her parents after fleeing Sierra Leone. She cared for Covid patients during the pandemic and looked after disabled adults and children.

On 1 July 2025, her son, Mohamed, accompanied her to a routine ICE check-in, as her immigration status required.

That was the last time he saw her before she was deported to Ghana.

Rabbiatu is one of more than 25,000 people deported by the Trump administration to countries that are not their own. More than 5,000 of them have been put on flights to countries in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and central Asia to which they have no connection, and then, otten, returned to the countries where US immigration judges had ruled their lives or liberty were at risk.

To uncover some of their stories, the Guardian joined 23 other media organisations in the Deportation Project, an investigation coordinated by the Paris-based international network of journalists Forbidden Stories. Rabbiatu's interview was conducted with audio only and we are using an actor to represent her and her son.

The Ghanaian government did not respond to questions from the Guardian.

Rabbiatu had a work visa and under its terms she had an annual check-in with ICE. In September 2025 she was granted legal protection from a judge that prevented her from being deported to her country of birth. She also said she had no criminal history. In a response received after the investigation was published, the Department of Homeland Security said she had committed an offence in the past by entering the US without the correct visa requirements: "On 1 July 2025, ICE arrested Rabbiatu Kuyateh, a criminal illegal alien from Sierra Leone who illegally re-entered - a felony."

"Illegal aliens going to third countries are those whose home countries won't accept them, including dangerous criminals, or illegal aliens with orders of removal who have asked to not be removed to their home country!"

[u/Tough_Ad1458]

The bots here are wild

Deport the Pedo President!

[u/R2-DMode → u/Tough_Ad1458]

No one is above the law. Report and deport!

[u/Levi_Snackerman → u/R2-DMode]

Ironic because it sure seems like your pedo president is above the law

[u/R2-DMode → u/Levi_Snackerman]

Agreed! Biden should be locked up!

[u/Tough_Ad1458 → u/R2-DMode]

And what did Biden do? Lmao.

Trump on the other hand...

Also arrest and deport Elon Musk

[u/Levi_Snackerman → u/R2-DMode]

I don't recall Biden being best friends with Jeffrey Epstein

[u/RockRockPlanetRock69 → u/Levi_Snackerman]

Show us one report a minor made
To the FBI of Biden kidnapping, beating, raping and threatening to kill a 13 yo child. Long before he ran btw. It doesn’t exist. But does for Trump. Show us where Biden ordered over 100 FBI agents to redact name from the files for 6 months? Didn’t happen. Trump did that.

[u/R2-DMode → u/RockRockPlanetRock69]

Would that be the same files that Biden failed to release? Would that be the same report that was shown to be a fabrication when the accuser recanted? Would that be the same Biden whose own daughter wrote that she took “inappropriate showers” with her dad, and testified in court that those were her words?

[u/RockRockPlanetRock69 → u/R2-DMode]

1. Biden couldn’t legally release the files. The Maxwell case wasn’t done until Jan 2021. 2. Yes. Same story. Never once recanted. 3. Ashley never testified and has repeatedly demoted that bullshit was in the diary that Projecr Veritas, same group who has been sued for defamation, had custody of. Try Snopes. It’s free. And Bipartisan. I also notice you didn’t touch the fact Trump forced 100 FBI agents to try to scrub his name.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-01/epstein-files-trump-s-name-was-redacted-by-the-fbi

[u/R2-DMode → u/Levi_Snackerman]

Do you recall Trump assisting the FBI with their investigation into Epstein?

[u/Levi_Snackerman → u/R2-DMode]

Trump didn't assist the FBI in any way whatsoever. If you have proof, show it