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It blows my mind that this has gone on pretty much around the clock since Trump got back in office, and yet nobody talks about it.

Not nobody. But not enough.

Is there any estimate you have about how many people might be on these flights? I am wondering what rough speculation we have about the number of people being handled like cargo on a daily basis. It's just shameful.

I saw your tracker link, but was just trying to wrap my head around what numbers of people might be on 80+ transports.

Right. My tracker is only records third-country removals, not all ICE flights. @refugeesinternational.org estimates 23,000 people have been subjected to TCR under Trump. For data on all ICE flights, I recommend the monthly reports from @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social.

That’s a good question. We know very few of the flights are full, and even with the full ones up to a third of the seats will be taken by federal agents and GEO Group guards, but no, I don’t know of an estimate and ICE doesn’t release this info.

I saw a report where countries won't take back people and now they are in different prisons all over Africa, they had families,jobs, homes, payed taxes and a good life now they are sitting in prisons

They know their number is almost up. And it's going to be depressing between now and when their number is up.

Thank you for what you do here.

How can we support this work?

You can read my story about one of those third-country removals here prospect.org/2026/08/20/l...

Related: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesto... Liberia is the old racist project of the US It's not surprising the white supremacists are using it to expel immigrants The original purpose of Liberia was to expel black Americans and enslave them there

"In July 2009, Taylor claimed at his trial that US CIA agents had helped him escape. The US Defense Intelligence Agency confirmed that Taylor first started working with US intelligence in the 1980s but refused to give details of his role or US actions, citing national security."

And the Third-Country Removal Tracker has been updated. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

There is another ICE flight to Africa in progress, which could include third-country nationals. Will know more when we see where it lands.