Since 2025, the Trump administration has deported about 5,000 people on flights to “third countries” where they have no family ties or history, sometimes as far as Ghana and Sierra Leone.

A Guardian investigation ‘Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals‘ exposes the staggering cruelty of this sinister policy. It seems deliberately designed to stoke fear, and shows how far-right ideas that once belonged on the fringes of politics have become so mainstream that they’re now barely opposed. These deportations often happen very quickly, with people given little notice of what is going to happen to them. That creates huge challenges for lawyers trying to defend people who are shackled on flights, and for journalists trying to tell their stories.

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