Category: Africa
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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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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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Read this Travel Ban Explainer by Immigration Monitor (a credible guide to global immigration). This lists countries with full and partial travel bans that affect various kinds of immigration and non-immigration visas – and the rationale for restricting travel and visas from these countries. Some exceptions make be available for some people with these reasons:…
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Third-country deportees have already been sent to South Sudan and Eswatini and Rwanda may take up to 250 deportees from third-countries who refuse to take them back. Read more @ Border Report Matsapha Correctional Facility in Eswatini