US Supreme Court to hear case of Nigerian deported over cooking for separatist group

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to perceive a lawsuit involving Nigerian national, Izuchukwu Ozurumba, whose asylum exertion was rejected aft helium provided cooking services astatine a campy operated by a Nigerian separatist group.

According to a study by Vanguard, the lawsuit centres connected whether cooking for members of a radical designated arsenic a violent organisation amounts to providing “material support” for coercion nether US migration law.

Ozurumba reportedly said helium was forced to navigator astatine the group’s campy successful confederate Nigeria for astir six months from 2022.

He aboriginal fled to Venezuela earlier crossing the US-Mexico borderline successful 2023.

In 2024, a US migration justice denied his asylum exertion and ordered his deportation, citing the ineligible proviso barring individuals who supply worldly enactment to violent organisations from receiving asylum.

The determination was subsequently upheld connected appeal.

However, a national appeals tribunal aboriginal overturned the earlier rulings, arguing that Ozurumba’s enactment arsenic a navigator did not found that helium had supported oregon participated successful the group’s violent activities.

The tribunal described him arsenic a captive labourer whose duties had nary nonstop transportation to specified activities.

Ozurumba was deported to Nigeria successful April 2025, according to his lawyers.

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