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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The Deportation Project tracked them, and depicted them in this map.
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- At least 25,447 third country nationals were deported from the US between January 2025 and August 31, 2026.
- At least 35 countries concluded an agreement with the US to accept third country nationals between those dates.
- At least 28 countries are known to have received third country nationals between those dates. At least 7 more are set to receive them as a result of an agreement.
Explore the map
Credits: Evident Media, Icetracking.org, Forbidden Stories, FRANCE 24, Berkeley Human Rights Center · Data credits: Ice Flight Monitor, Third-Country Deportation Watch
The data in this map does not come from the Trump administration. Most removals aren’t publicly announced, the number of people removed and their nationalities are often kept confidential. Tracking so-called third country removals (migrants expelled from US soil, but not to their country of origin) is a daily struggle that organizations such as Human Rights First and Refugees International started over a year ago. Much of the data in this map is based on their work.
The two NGOs created “Third Country Deportation Watch”, a website which tracks the number of deals signed, and how many so-called third country nationals are deported to each country monthly. “I think due to a really concerted effort by civil society, and I will include us in that, but also attorneys, we have really shone a light and made it harder for this to occur in secrecy,” said Savi Arvey of Human Rights First. She explains that their organization built a whole network of NGOs and people on-the-ground in receiving countries to gather information on every single flight with third country nationals on board.
Additional data was sourced from tracking by the UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, articles published by journalists around the world, and reporting by members of the consortium.
The map is also a portal to the work published by the 24 media organizations involved in this project, which 72 journalists worked on for six months. It includes images and videos obtained by the consortium. It provides information on the deals signed by the US to bring about these removals, and showcases the countries of origin of the people who have been deported to third countries.
Sources: ICE Flight Monitor, a project by Human Rights First; Third-Country Deportation Watch, a joint project by Human Rights First and Refugees International; UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center (HRC); freedom of information (FOIA) requests and reporting by our consortium; lawyers representing third-country nationals; articles by local or international news organisations; authorities of countries involved.
Transfers of people being deported to their country of origin transiting through a third country have not been included in the tally of transferred third-country nationals.
You can find our complete methodology here.
By Magdalena Hervada (Forbidden Stories), Lise Kiennemann (France 24), Michael Sparks (Icetracking.org x Evident Media)
Additional reporting by Léa Péruchon, Sofía Álvarez Jurado, Sofia Soldà (Forbidden Stories)
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