The U.S. government is now deporting migrants to some of the most dangerous countries on earth — including now to Libya, where migrants face torture, rape, slavery, and indefinite detention in lawless camps.

This is not immigration enforcement. It’s state-sponsored cruelty.

From Venezuela to El Salvador to Libya, the Trump administration has used military aircraft and obscure legal justifications to deport people — including children — to places where even the State Department warns Americans not to travel.

The State Department warns against traveling to Libya “due to crime, terrorism, unexploded land mines, civil unrest, kidnapping and armed conflict.”

Many of these countries have well-documented records of human rights violations, especially toward migrants.

Yet the U.S. continues to send people there.

We are calling on Congress to pass legislation that prohibits deportations to any country with a documented pattern of human rights abuses.

Establish an independent review process to evaluate deportation destinations based on human rights data and U.S. foreign policy warnings.

The U.S. should never send someone into a country where they face a serious risk of torture, death, or abuse.

That is a violation of international law, human rights, and basic morality.