4.23.2005

Somalia refuses to admit refugee deported from Minnesota: "Keyse Jama, the Somali whom the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has been trying to deport, was apparently rejected for admission to Somalia on Friday." The U.S government has been trying to deport Jama for more than four years. He entered the country legally in 1996 and settled in Minnesota. He lost his refugee status after being convicted of a 1999 assault. In papers filed with Tunheim's court, the agency said it had contracted with an international security firm that had negotiated the right to land a chartered plane in Bossasso. ICE officials took Jama from Minnesota to Kenya, apparently on Wednesday night, and turned him over to the private firm. But when the charter landed in Bossasso, officials there would not allow him to remain, according to the BBC report.

Exactly how much money is the government spending in trying to deport this single individual?

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