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The Ticket Home They Did Not Ask For: What America's Self-Deportation Turn Means for Kenyans on the List

A Supreme Court ruling and a $2,100 'voluntary departure' offer have hardened US enforcement. For more than 1,200 Kenyans on ICE's removal list, the warning lands close to home.

about 2 months ago5 min

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Diaspora

The Weigh Station in Middletown: How a Routine Cargo Stop Pulled a Kenyan Trucker Into America's Detention Machine

James Wambui passed inspections in Texas and made deliveries in New York. A routine weigh-station check in Virginia cost him three weeks in detention and roughly $50,000.

about 2 months ago5 min

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Politics

Three Weeks in Farmville: A Kenyan Trucker's Detention and the New Geography of Fear on America's Highways

about 2 months ago4 min