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The Trump regime is attempting to normalize detaining people in other countries through third-country deportations as a new & model of incarceration and deportation. This violence is an extension of the admin’s mass detention & deportation agenda, where ICE subjects people to horrific abuse daily.

detentionwatchnetwork.orgViolent third-country deportations are an extension of Trump’s mass detention and deportation agendaNationwide - In response to reports of abuse and horrendous conditions during ICE’s third country deportations, Stacy Suh, Program Director of Detention Watch Network issued the following statement:

Third-country deportations serve to expel people out of sight and out of mind, but the reality is that often they are imprisoned in remote or abusive prisons where their freedom of movement is extremely limited. To date, the admin has sent more than 23,000 people to 26 countries.

thirdcountrydeportationwatch.orgThird Country Deportation WatchMonitoring the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third country transfer agreements.

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Third country deportation is a cruel tactic designed to circumvent protections for people who cannot be deported their home country because they are at risk of torture or even death or are unable to obtain the necessary documentation to travel. These cruel policies do not make our communities safer.

The human toll and cost to all Americans continues to be shocking. Third country deportation and detention expansion are the same system, funded by the unprecedented $240 billion Congress handed to DHS to bolster Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda.

nytimes.comDeportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and BlowsTen deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.