Traci Mumford

Nearly all of the migrants had been granted court orders preventing them from being deported to their home countries because they said they were escaping war or persecution.

For the Trump administration, sending them to Cameroon appears to be a kind of workaround.

Since being deported there, most of them have been held in a compound and told they can't leave unless they agree to go back to their original countries.

It's part of an increasingly common strategy by the White House to arrange third-country deportation agreements.

According to a recent Senate investigation, the U.S.

has paid upwards of $40 million to arrange these kinds of deals, sending people to countries like El Salvador and Equatorial Guinea, even if they are not from there.

Critics have said the administration is using the arrangements to get around court orders, with one former ICE official from the Biden administration calling the practice, quote, flatly illegal.

Officials from Cameroon and the State Department declined to comment.

The civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson, has died at 84 years old.

that we care.

He was one of the most influential figures in the push for civil rights in the U.S.

for decades.

He was part of Martin Luther King Jr.

's inner circle and was there when King was assassinated in 1968.

Jackson then became a household name of his own, running for president twice in the 1980s, the first Black candidate to become a serious contender in a national contest.

He gave galvanizing speeches at national Democratic conventions, articulating a vision for the party that drew in people of color and others who'd been marginalized.

And he remained active.

As recently as 2021, when he was 79 years old, he was among protesters arrested in D.C.

while speaking out against voting restrictions that were being pushed by Republicans.

Over the years, Jackson also faced some personal controversies.