Six Cuban and Afghan nationals with no criminal histories landed in Guyana on Saturday, deported not to their homelands but to a country they did not choose, under a growing American policy of third-country removal. The Trump administration, having returned to office in 2025, has now negotiated more than thirty such arrangements with nations willing to receive deportees that origin countries refuse to take back. This practice — quiet in its mechanics, vast in its consequences — reflects a deepening shift in how the United States defines the boundaries of belonging and the reach of its enforcem
Trump administration expands third-country deportations as six arrive in Guyana
Six individuals deported to Guyana, a country unfamiliar to them, with uncertain futures; broader policy affects tens of thousands stripped of legal status and facing deportation to unstable regions.