avoid repatriation to their home countries, their lawyer said Wednesday. The deportations took place under a controversial US scheme that sends foreign nationals in an irregular situation in the United States to third countries. The complaint filed with the administrative court in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde seeks to "suspend the migration agreement" concluded between Cameroon and the United States. The aim of the expelled migrants is to be able to reside in Cameroon legally and prevent deportation to their country of origin, Fru Awah said in a statement sent to AFP. "The lawsuit challenges Cameroon's implementation of an arrangement with the USA under which individuals who were protected by USA immigration courts from removal to their countries of origin were transferred to Cameroon. "It asks the court to suspend any further implementation of the arrangement while its legality is being determined, require the government to clarify the applicants' legal status, and prevent their onward removal to countries where they face persecution or torture”, it said. "Cameroon cannot be used as a transit point... we are asking the court to affirm that no administrative arrangement can override Cameroon's constitutional, statutory, and international obligations”, Awah said. Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Angola, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Senegal, Zimbabwe and Morocco, these thirty-six individuals had been protected by the USA courts from deportation to their countries of origin. (Bssnews)