#Cameroon has, for more than 4 decades, been led by a strongman president, Paul Biya. The #Trump admin opted not to criticize his disputed re-election in October, & said nothing afterward when security forces waged a deadly crackdown on #protesters.

That gave the #US leverage weeks later, diplomats wrote, when it came time to negotiate a #deportation deal.

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The documents obtained by NYT include confidential #State Department correspondence & a funding memo, which connects the money transfer [#bribe] to the #Cameroon #deportation arrangement. The files, coupled with confirmation from officials, reveal how the #US government used financial pressure [#extortion] & political incentives to secure a deal that the deportees’ lawyer compared to “selling people.” [#slavery]

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The deal is part of a broader #Trump admin campaign to coax countries to accept immigrants who cannot be legally deported from the #US to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the US uses to engineer such agreements.

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The #Trump admin this winter secured a secret deal with the government of #Cameroon to deport hundreds of immigrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against #protesters there ‘ withholding $30 million from a local #UN office, acc/to officials & US government documents.

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In her note, Alfonsi said that her team had requested comment from the #WhiteHouse, the #State Department, & #DHS. “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Alfonsi wrote.

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“For those people that think I am close with the new owners of #CBS, please understand that #60Minutes has treated me far worse since the so-called ‘takeover,’ than they have ever treated me before,” #Trump complained on Truth Social last week.

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