A government's power to expel those it deems unwanted has always tested the boundaries of law and conscience, but the Trump administration's quiet arrangement to scatter thousands of people across unfamiliar continents — some holding legal protections, none told their destination — raises a question as old as exile itself: where does sovereignty end and cruelty begin? Through bilateral agreements with 38 nations, more than 25,000 people have been deposited in countries they have never known, at a cost of hundreds of millions in public funds and an incalculable toll in human suffering. Courts h
Trump's Secret Third-Country Deportations: 25,000 Sent to Nations They've Never Known
Thousands deported to unsafe third countries face malaria, police extortion, forced returns to persecuting regimes, suicide attempts, and separation from elderly dependent family members in the US.