Tag: third-country deportations

  • This hour-long podcast, by the Zolberg Institute, is about immigration detention including the legal arguments being used to prevent people from bonding out of detention, the use of third country deportations, and the expansion of detention facilities nation-wide. During this administration, the number of people in immigrant detention increased from around 40,000 to around 70,000. …

  • 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).

  • Human Rights First has created a new website to track and explain third-country deportations from the United States. Here is the new Third-country Deportations Watch website. Here’s the cheat sheet (chart) with an overview of third country deportations from the US. Countries with current or pending agreements include these: Belize | Costa Rica | Ecuador…