The Trump administration deported a gay Moroccan asylum seeker to a country where homosexuality is illegal—despite a U.S. immigration judge’s order protecting her from exactly that fate.

Farah, a 21-year-old who fled Morocco after her family tried to kill her for being gay, spent nearly a year in U.S. detention seeking asylum. In August, a judge ruled she could not be sent back to Morocco because it would endanger her life. Being gay there carries up to three years in prison.

Three days before a hearing on her release, ICE agents handcuffed her and put her on a plane to Cameroon—a country she had never visited, and where homosexuality is also illegal.

“They asked me if I wanted to stay in Cameroon, and I told them that I can’t stay in Cameroon and risk my life in a place where I would still be endangered,” Farah told The Independent. She was eventually flown to Morocco anyway.

Now she’s in hiding in the country she fled, terrified her family will track her down again. “It is hard to live and work with the fear of being tracked once again by my family,” she said. “But there is nothing I can do.”

Farah isn’t an isolated case. All nine deportees on the first U.S. flight to Cameroon in January had received protection orders from immigration judges, according to lawyer Joseph Awah Fru. A second flight this week brought eight more people, at least two of whom also had protection orders.

The administration calls this a “loophole.” Immigration lawyer Alma David calls it a violation of due process, U.S. immigration law, international treaties, and DHS’s own procedures.

“By deporting them to Cameroon, and giving them no opportunity to contest being sent to a country whose government hoped to quietly send them back to the very countries where they face grave danger, the U.S. not only violated their due process rights but our own immigration laws,” David said.

The Department of Homeland Security disagrees. “We are applying the law as written,” it said, claiming the third-country agreements “ensure due process under the U.S. Constitution.”

The U.S. has now cut deals with at least seven African nations to accept deportees who aren’t citizens of those countries. Democratic staff on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee estimate the administration has spent at least $40 million to deport about 300 people this way. Internal documents show 47 more third-country agreements are in various stages of negotiation.

Farah, who trekked through six countries with her partner to reach the U.S. border, said hearing officials describe people like her as threats was painful.

“The USA is built on immigration and by immigrant labor, so we’re clearly not all threats,” she said. “What was done to me was unfair. A normal deportation would have been fair, but to go through so much and lose so much, only to be deported in such a way, is cruel.”