Since returning to office, the Trump administration has deported more than 675,000 people.

The federal judge recently allowed the government to continue deporting undocumented immigrants

to countries other than their country of origin.

Even though the administration says it's removing the worst of the worst criminal elements,

some migrants, including those fleeing political

violence and who have made asylum claims, are getting swept up as well. William Brangham recently

spoke with one of those people and her lawyer. We recently interviewed a woman who we will call

Julia, who was deported through this policy. After she says she was violently attacked

by her government soldiers, Julia fled her home country in East Africa two years ago. She took

a flight to Brazil, traveled two months up through South America, crossed the treacherous

Darien Gap, all the way to the U.S. border, where she hoped to claim asylum.

She was detained in the United States for over a year, and then last summer, a judge ruled that

Julia could not be deported back to her home country, given the risks that she would face.

Four months later, she was put on a plane and sent to Equatorial Guinea, a place she had never been and had never even heard of.

Julia's lawyer, Meredith, Yoon, joins us now.

Meredith, thank you so much for being here.

We spoke with Julia recently, and she described this horrendous story explaining why she had to flee her country.

And it goes like this. Her brothers, who were away at the time, had apparently joined an armed opposition group.

And government soldiers came to Julia's home to interrogate them to find out information about their brothers.

And this is very, very hard to listen to. We also obscure Julia's face to protect her identity.

But this is what Julia told us happened on that day.

They came in the night.

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