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Cambodian man sent to African prison by Trump administration, after finishing US jail term

Pheap Rom was among 20 men sent to Eswatini under Trump’s ‘third country’ deals.

Brian Mikael Cheng
Read more on the story: https://sc.mp/2eab21

After serving 15 years for attempted murder, Cambodia-born American permanent resident Pheap Rom was expecting to be deported to Cambodia. Instead, under a secretive Trump third-country deal, he was flown to the African nation of eSwatini, along with around 20 other men. Now in Cambodia, a country he left at age three, Rom speaks out about his ordeal and his plan to start over.

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