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Trump secretly deported 25,000 migrants

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The Trump administration secretly deported more than 25,000 migrants to third countries under deals with about 35 nations since 2025, an international investigation found.

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Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead.
- 25,000 people deported
- $410 million spent.
- UN aid used to sweeten the deals.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2026 at 10:30 AM

Reposted by Robert B. Reich

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ICE wants to deport Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a DoorDash driver who they just shot in Austin yesterday. The federal government can't shoot someone and then try to make them disappear to escape scrutiny.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez needs a doctor right now, not a deportation.
September 21, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Detention doesn't automatically mean a final deportation order. Under the Trump administration, detentions of individuals without criminal convictions or final removal orders increased, leading to a higher percentage being deported within 60 days and fewer being released. #Deportations
September 21, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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"‘Hi, just following up again on the email I sent you last week, and the week before that, and the week before that, and the week before that, that you haven’t responded to,’” she said. “And they know they don’t have to because there’s no accountability.”
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead.
- 25,000 people deported
- $410 million spent.
- UN aid used to sweeten the deals.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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OMFG!

ICE is a state-sponsored terrorist organization. I'm serious.

Remember: they are going after "migrants" in order to go after us all. Yes, that includes "citizens."
September 21, 2026 at 4:22 AM

Reposted by Anna O. Law

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Immigration agents are actively sabotaging FOIA requests to withhold records immigrants need to fight deportation, a new whistleblower complaint reveals.

This story and more in The Classifieds.
Whistleblower exposes FOIA sabotage at immigration agency
Plus: The Agriculture Department arbitrarily threatens to close a year-old FOIA request for SNAP data within four days
freedom.press
September 21, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Reposted by David Darmofal

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Miller is a diplomatic crisis.

“Miller, known for his relentless anti-immigration focus, has been able to push key appointments at the State Department that have allowed him to overrule other foreign policy objectives in his goal of achieving more deportations.”

wapo.st/4dLG4wo
How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
wapo.st
September 21, 2026 at 12:14 PM

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa

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Forbidden Stories' Deportation Project: exiled to Africa by the US
Forbidden Stories' Deportation Project: exiled to Africa by the US
An Iranian woman expelled to the Central African Republic; a gay Ghanaian man sent back to his country and threatened with death. Their stories are part of a vast international investigation into the Trump administration's mass deportations.
rfi.my
September 21, 2026 at 6:03 AM