; Whereas many African countries have shut their borders to fight the COVID–19 pandemic and ICE has deported at least 189 African nationals to their countries of origin since the start of the outbreak; Whereas according to the International Rescue Committee, more than 20 percent of the ICE detainee population is testing positive for COVID–19 and given the high numbers of COVID–19, it is likely that some of the African deportees were coronavirus-positive and transported the virus back to their country of origin; Whereas human rights groups have indicated that those deported face the risk of being arbitrarily arrested, tortured, and even killed upon their return to Cameroon; and Whereas, in October 2020, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Committee on Homeland Security sent multiple letters to ICE demanding it stop its plans to deport over 200 Cameroonian asylum-seekers and several Senators sent a letter to the Acting Secretary of the Department urging the administration to halt deportations of Cameroonian asylum-seekers: Now, therefore, be it