达卡尔，10月5日--两年前，阿卜杜·阿杜·阿杜·福（Abdou Ottfou）被看到亲吻他所爱的男人后，一群暴徒袭击了他，并威胁要杀死他。
DAKAR, Oct 5 - Two years ago, a mob assaulted Abdou Latifou and threatened to kill him after he was seen kissing the man he loved.
根据他的庇护申请，他逃离了西非国家多哥的家，并在美国寻求庇护。
He fled his home in the West African nation of Togo and sought refuge in the United States, according to his asylum application.
去年11月，当美国移民法官裁定他被遣返回国不安全时，杜福感到高兴。
Latifou rejoiced last November when a US immigration judge ruled it was not safe for him to be sent home.
“我告诉自己，‘从今天起，我将进入一个我可以自由地生活的世界，’”他说。
“I told myself, ‘From this day on, I’m entering a world where I’m free to live as myself,’” he said.
然而，六月，杜福被迫登上美国驱逐飞机--不是返回多哥，而是返回塞拉利昂，根据殖民时代的法律，同性恋者可以被判处终身监禁。
In June, though, Latifou was forced onto a US deportation plane — not back to Togo but to Sierra Leone, a nation where gay men can be sentenced to life in prison under colonial-era laws.
唐纳德·特朗普总统政府通过与贫困的外国政府达成的协议，将数万人驱逐到第三国。
President Donald Trump's administration has deported tens of thousands of people to third countries, enabled by deals with impoverished foreign governments.
卢福的案件是路透社记录的40起案件之一，这些案件中，因LGBT身份而受到迫害而获得美国法律保护的移民被驱逐到非洲第三国，这些国家要么将同性关系定为犯罪，要么被美国国务院描述为敌视LGBT人群。
Latifou's case is one of 40 documented by Reuters where migrants granted US legal protection after being persecuted for their LGBT status were deported to third countries in Africa that either criminalize same-sex relations or have been described by the State Department as hostile to LGBT people.
路透社通过采访十几名被驱逐者和移民律师并审查数百页法律文件，追踪了这40人的命运，其中包括来自非洲各地以及伊拉克、牙买加和俄罗斯的人。
Reuters has tracked the fate of all 40 – including people from across Africa, as well as Iraq, Jamaica and Russia – by interviewing a dozen deportees and immigration lawyers and reviewing hundreds of pages of legal documents.
其中16人仍留在被驱逐出境的国家，其中一些人仍被拘留。另外16人，像阿杜福这样，被违背意愿遣返回国。九人躲藏在第三个地点。他们说，一名加纳男子不再与他的律师或亲属联系。
Sixteen remain in the countries they were deported to and some are still detained. Sixteen others, like Latifou, were repatriated to their home countries against their will. Nine are in hiding in third locations. One Ghanaian man is no longer in contact with his lawyers or relatives, they said.
美国前高级移民官员克莱尔？特里克勒？麦克纳（Claire Trickler-McNynth）表示，将人们“送往第三国，在那里他们面临着我们所承认的迫害，这是对我们保护体系的嘲弄。”
Sending people “to a third country where they face the very persecution we recognized makes a mockery of our protection systems,” said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former senior US immigration official.
美国国土安全部（ICE的上级机构）发言人钱德勒·里贝尔在一份声明中表示：“移民和海关执法局不会基于性取向来执法，那是违法的。”“向第三国遣返是维护公共安全的重要手段。”新策略：在特朗普第二任期之前，向第三国遣返的情况较为罕见。
Immigration and Customs Enforcement "does not enforce the law on the basis of sexual orientation, that would be illegal,” Chandler Rebel, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, ICE's parent agency, said in a statement. "Third country removals are an essential public safety tool.”A NEW TACTIC Third-country deportations were rare before Trump’s second term.
但自他重返白宫并启动大规模移民打击行动以来，根据路透社获得的初步政府数据，移民和海关执法局及边境巡逻队已将超过4万人遣返至非其国籍的国家，这一数字远高于倡导组织此前的估计。其中约900人被遣送至非洲国家。
But since he returned to office and began a wide-ranging immigration crackdown, more than 40,000 people in total have been deported to countries not their own by ICE and Border Patrol, according to preliminary government data shared with Reuters, far higher than previous estimates from advocates. About 900 were sent to African countries.
今年2月，在一项挑战该政策的案件中，美国地区法官布莱恩·墨菲强调了同性恋者所面临的风险。他在判决书中写道，政府声称被针对者并未明确请求不要将其遣返至压迫性的第三国，这一说法是“荒谬的”。
In a February order, in a case challenging the policy, US District Judge Brian Murphy highlighted the risks facing gay people. The government’s claim that those targeted had not explicitly asked not to be deported to repressive third countries was an “absurdity,” he wrote.
“不能合理地要求任何人就其可能拥有合法抗辩理由的地球上每一个国家，都提出详尽的预防性主张。”周二，美国最高法院暂停了墨菲法官的裁决，允许政府继续执行向第三国遣返的政策。法院将于12月听取辩论。
“No person could reasonably be expected to make detailed, prophylactic claims about every country on Earth to which she might have a valid claim against removal.”On Tuesday, the Supreme Court put a hold on Murphy's ruling, allowing the administration to continue third-country deportations. The court will hear arguments in December.
敌意之地：路透社记录的40起案件涉及向三个明确将同性性行为定为犯罪的国家遣返，这三个国家是塞拉利昂、喀麦隆和斯威士兰。
HOSTILE GROUND The 40 cases documented by Reuters involve deportations to three countries that explicitly criminalize same-sex sexual acts: Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Eswatini.
在另外三个法律上并未禁止此类行为的国家——中非共和国、赤道几内亚和刚果民主共和国——美国国务院此前曾记录过针对LGBT群体的虐待行为，包括“矫正性强奸”和转化治疗。这六个国家的政府发言人未就置评请求作出回应。
In three other countries that do not have such laws on the books -- Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo -- the State Department has previously documented abuses against LGBT people, including “corrective rape” and conversion therapy. Government spokespeople for the six countries did not respond to requests for comment.
布丽吉特·克劳福德是LGBT权益倡导组织“移民平等”组织的法律与政策主管。她说，美国已多次向来自这些国家的LGBT人士授予庇护资格。近年来，她所在的组织帮助了12名喀麦隆人和1名刚果人获得庇护。
Bridget Crawford, director of law and policy at Immigration Equality, an LGBT advocacy group, said the US has repeatedly granted asylum to LGBT people from these countries. Her group has helped 12 Cameroonians and one person from Congo win asylum in recent years.
但包括拉蒂富在内的40多人中，超过一半人不符合庇护资格，因为他们在非法进入美国前经过的国家没有申请庇护。联邦法院已于5月撤销拜登政府时期实施的这项限制规定，而未能申请庇护正是导致资格被取消的原因。
But more than half of the 40, including Latifou, were not eligible for asylum because they did not apply for it in countries they passed through before illegally entering the US. This was disqualifying under Biden-era restrictions that a federal court vacated in May.
拉蒂富案的法官授予了他较低级别的保护，禁止政府将他驱逐回多哥，但允许将其遣送至其他地方。
The judge in Latifou's case granted a lesser protection, barring the government from deporting him to Togo but allowing his removal elsewhere.
被空运至塞拉利昂后，拉蒂富称，他被警方监视，在一家酒店内关押了两周。
After being flown to Sierra Leone, Latifou said he was held for two weeks in a hotel under police surveillance.
随后，押送人员将他送上飞往多哥的航班。抵达时，他身边只有几件衣物和100美元。
Guards then put him on a flight back to Togo. He arrived with a few items of clothing and $100 to his name.
他回到自己的村庄看望母亲，但一名亲属不久后警告他说，他并不安全，还帮助他越过边境前往贝宁。他随后继续前往科特迪瓦，目前与一名朋友同住，并在那里担任保安。
He traveled to his village to see his mother, but a relative soon warned him that he was not safe and helped him cross the border to Benin. He continued on to Ivory Coast, where he lives with a friend and works as a security guard.
同性性行为在他的新家园并非违法，但科特迪瓦活动人士报告称，针对同性恋的暴力事件日益增加。因此，拉蒂富避开多哥裔社群，“以免被认出来。”国土安全部发言人雷贝尔说：“一个人不再被美国移民与海关执法局拘押后，该局就不再对其负责。”“本末倒置”许多接受路透社采访的被驱逐者表示，他们最终去了任何愿意接收他们的地方。
Same-sex relations are not illegal in his new home, but Ivorian activists have reported rising homophobic violence, and Latifou avoids the Togolese community, “so I don’t get recognized.”“When an individual is no longer in ICE custody then ICE will no longer be responsible for them," Rebel, the DHS spokesman, said. 'UPSIDE DOWN' Many of the deportees who spoke to Reuters said they wound up wherever someone would take them in.
一名加纳双性恋女性今年1月被驱逐至喀麦隆，并在那里停留了七个月。由于不会说当地主要语言法语，又担心返回加纳后人身安全，她前往尼日利亚北部与一名亲属同住。那里对同性性行为的惩罚可能包括鞭刑或石刑处死。她说，大多数时候她都不出门。
A bisexual Ghanaian woman was deported to Cameroon in January and remained there for seven months. Unable to speak French, the primary local language, and fearing for her safety if she returned to Ghana, she went to live with a relative in northern Nigeria, where penalties for same-sex sexual acts can include lashes or death by stoning. Most days she does not leave the house, she said.
一名来自加纳的同性恋男子被驱逐到塞拉利昂，随后又被强制遣返。他在邻国多哥的森林中躲藏了四个月。他说，自己的生活依靠母亲寄来的少量钱维持。
A gay man from Ghana -- deported to Sierra Leone, then forcibly repatriated -- has spent four months hiding out in the forests of neighboring Togo. He survives on small sums of money sent by his mother, he said.
大多数夜晚，他只能躺在地上的毯子上睡觉；下雨时，他会躲进一座废弃的、尚未完工的房屋中避雨。
Most nights he sleeps on a blanket on the ground, seeking cover in an abandoned, half-finished house when it rains.
另一名44岁的毛里塔尼亚男子在美国生活了十多年，今年1月被美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）拘留，并被遣送到埃斯瓦蒂尼（一个他从未听说过的南部非洲国家）。他在那里的监狱里待了一个半月，那里没有热水，蚊子肆虐。他在接受采访时说：“我的生活彻底被毁了。”
A 44-year-old Mauritanian man who lived in the US for more than a decade was detained by ICE in January and flown to Eswatini, a small southern African kingdom he had never heard of. He spent a month and a half in a mosquito-infested prison with no hot water, he said in an interview.
最终，他同意被遣返回毛里塔尼亚，但随后偷越边境逃到了塞内加尔。不过塞内加尔政府最近将同性性行为的最高处罚力度提高了一倍。
He finally agreed to be flown back to Mauritania, then slipped over the border into Senegal, where the government recently doubled the maximum penalty for same-sex sexual acts.
现在，他住在塞内加尔一个偏远小镇的亲戚家中，正在试图了解是否有欧洲或亚洲的国家愿意接纳他。“我的生活彻底被颠覆了，”他说。
Now staying with relatives in a remote town, he is trying to find out if any countries in Europe or Asia might accept him. “My life just got turned upside down,” he said.