U.S. working to reverse an Egyptian man's third-country deportation to Africa
NPR News reports: A detainee boards a deportation flight on GlobalX Air in Minnesota in December 2025. Photo by Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images hide caption The Trump administration on Friday said it has started to facilitate the return to the U.S. of an Egyptian man who was deported to Equatorial Guinea, in a rare case of the government working to reverse a third-country deportation . A federal judge in Arizona earlier this week ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the U.S. from the country in central Africa where he has no ties, and respond how it plans to do so.
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NPR News reports: A detainee boards a deportation flight on GlobalX Air in Minnesota in December 2025. Photo by Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images hide caption The Trump administration on Friday said it has started to facilitate the return to the U.S. of an Egyptian man who was deported to Equatorial Guinea, in a rare case of the government working to reverse a third-country deportation . A federal judge in Arizona earlier this week ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the U.S. from the country in central Africa where he has no ties, and respond how it plans to do so.
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NPR News reports: A detainee boards a deportation flight on GlobalX Air in Minnesota in December 2025. Photo by Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images hide caption The Trump administration on Friday said it has started to facilitate the return to the U.S. of an Egyptian man who was deported to Equatorial Guinea, in a rare case of the government working to reverse a third-country deportation . A federal judge in Arizona earlier this week ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the U.S. from the country in central Africa where he has no ties, and respond how it plans to do so.