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EXCLUSIVE: Russian Dissident Says ICE Threatened Him With Rape if He Refused Deportation

After three months in Eloy Detention Center, Maksim Borisov faces deportation to Russia, where he says he’ll be tortured or killed. ICE told him U.S. prison would be worse.

Pablo Manríquez
May 30, 2025
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WASHINGTON—Maksim Borisov says he can’t hide who he is. “I’m super obviously gay,” he tells me, over a crackling detention center phone line, the kind of static that sounds like it’s hissing in prote…

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