Category: Deportations
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New Report (4/26) from Human Rights First and RAICES about Dilley Family Prison (near El Paso, Texas).
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This ProPublica article explains that parents of 11,000 American citizen children have been detained.
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This report, from the Migration Policy Institute, discusses a variety of federal immigration policies that are getting varying degrees of push-back from federal courts. Those policies include the following:
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The Migration Policy Institute provides this short overview of third country deportations and calculates that about 14,000 deportations to third countries (12,000 of those to Mexico) have occurred during 2025. It describes the four different kinds of agreements that the U.S. has signed with each of the 27 different countries who have agreed to take…
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Watch this video with Austin Kocker (Syracuse University) and Zain Lakhani (Women’s Refugee Commission) talking about a new report “What About My Children” which interviewed deported Honduran parents many of whom were not, as the US policy requires, allowed to decide if they wanted to be deported with or without their children.
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This article , from Mother Jones, describes third country and other deportation flights that are being outsourced by ICE to OMNI Air International which was purchased in April, 2025 by Stonepeak. a private equity firm.
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DHS Secretary admits to having detained 261 DACA recipients and deporting 86 of those. Read here
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NPR discussed third-country deportations in a 34-minute podcast. Here is the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Executive Summary from a report on third-country deportations which highlights the issues (from circumventing U.S. immigration law to the expenses associated with third country deportations).
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ICE may be at US/Mexican Ports of Entry to detain people who are self-deporting across the US/Mexican border in order to raise the number of detained individuals and to impose stronger penalties on those people. Read more here
Immigration Insight 