Trump Sends Millions to Authoritarian Leaders in Deportation Crackdown
The Trump administration paid $410 million for secret deals sending immigrants to third countries with no prior connection, bypassing human rights safeguards, officials said.
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How Trump’s $410 million deportation funding plan turned 13 African nations into destinations for thousands of deportees
The United States has offered or pledged at least $410 million to facilitate agreements allowing migrants deported from America to be sent to third countries, with 13 African nations among those that have agreed to receive people who are not their citizens.
Tiny US Office Strikes Secret Deals to Push Deportations
The Trump administration has turned a newly created State Department office into the nerve center of a global deportation scheme, the Washington Post reports. The State Department's 15-person Office of Remigration has been flying migrants to countries they've never lived in—sometimes authority states with poor human rights records—instead...
Trump Sends Millions to Authoritarian Leaders in Deportation Crackdown
The Trump administration has agreed to pay at least $410 million to facilitate its so-called “third-country deportations” for immigrants. As of the end of June, 31 countries, mostly in Latin America or Africa, have made deals to take immigrants expelled from the United States—despite having no connection to the deportees themselves, The Washington Post reported Monday. The effort to secure the deals was led by Christian Ehrhardt, who was tapped …
The government has provided a budget of 410 million dollars (more than 357 million euros) for this, reported the journalist network Forbidden Stories on Monday. The "Standard" was also involved, after which the vast majority of migrants were sent to Mexico with about 20,000 deported people, the rest to 27 countries in Latin America, Africa and the Pacific region. It was said that agreements had already been concluded with seven other countries. …
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