Aylin is 28, and gay. She fled Turkey after a religious group and a close family member threatened her life. A US immigration judge agreed it wasn’t safe for her to go back and granted her protection. Then she spent 18 months in American detention.

In July, she told CNN, she was shackled and put on a plane. Mid-flight, she learned where she was going: the Central African Republic. She’d never heard of it. “I’m so scared,” she said from Bangui, the capital. “I want to go outside, because I’m human. But I cannot go outside here.”

She eventually went back to Turkey, which is in the middle of a sweeping crackdown on LGBTQ groups. She’s told her family she’s changed her sexual orientation.

Adwoa, 21, is a bisexual woman from Ghana. A US court guaranteed she wouldn’t be sent back there. So the administration sent her to Cameroon, where same-sex relations can land you in prison for five years. She’s been held in a government detention facility for months.

“It’s like you’re a criminal,” she said.

The administration has signed at least 35 of these third-country deportation deals. Nearly half the countries taking deportees are in Africa, many of which criminalize homosexuality.

“If you’re queer or trans and you’re being sent to a country that persecutes queer and trans people, it is just unconscionable,” said Bridget Crawford of Immigration Equality.

A federal appeals court this month upheld a ruling that parts of the policy are unlawful, and the case is likely headed to the Supreme Court.

A judge says you can’t be sent home because you’ll be persecuted. So Trump sends you somewhere else where you’ll be persecuted instead.