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The Deportation Project

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72 journalists, 26 news organizations, 15 countries: a global investigation into the Trump administration's secret deals to expel people worldwide

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The office of Remigration: “America First” and its overseas negotiations
Since January 2025, the Trump administration has concluded deals with 35 countries to deport third country...
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“Let the whole world know” In Cameroon, investigating deportees from the United States can lead to detention
On Feb. 17, 2026, four Cameroonian journalists were detained in Yaoundé for entering a center secretly...
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other...
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Flight to Ghana: Expelled From the US to a Country They’d Never Been to
For the past 30 years, Kuyateh – a native of Sierra Leone – had been living an ocean away, in the US...
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Deported to the Prison City: A journalist expelled to Mexico’s southern border
In Venezuela, Roberto Betancourt’s received death threats for his work as a journalist. After a decade...
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Trump’s Policies Leave Thousands in Immigration Limbo in Mexico
In 1979, Lorenzo Sánchez, then a teenager who was born in Guantánamo, Cuba, faced a life-altering decision....

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