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25/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [ ]: NEW VIDEO OUT.

“The fear factor is the real deterrent that this administration is trying to spread through the system to say: 'don't come, don't try to come. It's not worth it. And if you're here, don't stay, because you should leave on your own terms and not be sent to a "third country".'

Nakamura - Reporter at Washington Post

Behind the Trump administration’s third-country deportation system is a little-known division of the Department of State: the Office of Remigration. Created in May 2025, this office negotiates deals with foreign governments to accept people deported from the United States, even when they have no ties to those countries, and handles the payments used to secure these agreements.

🌍 For six months, 72 journalists from 26 media organizations across 15 countries investigated this global deportation policy.

🎥 Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3K0KoGTk8

📰 Read our investigation: https://forbiddenstories.org/projects_posts/the-deportation-project-inside-the-trump-administrations-secret-deals-to-expel-people-worldwide/



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24/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [ ]: NEW VIDEO OUT.

“We had shackles on our feet, we had handcuffs on our hands. A chain that tied the foot shackles to the handcuffs. A lot of people there who already had psychological problems ended up completely losing their minds.”

Anabela - Honduran deported to Mexico

The Trump administration doesn't only deport people to African countries. The vast majority of the people have been sent to Mexico. There is no formal agreement between the two governments; or at least, none that has been made public. But that hasn't stopped the U.S. from expelling an estimated 20,000 people there.

🌍 For six months, 72 journalists from 26 media organizations across 15 countries investigated this global deportation policy.

🎥 Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3K0KoGTk8

📰 Read our investigation: https://forbiddenstories.org/projects_posts/the-deportation-project-inside-the-trump-administrations-secret-deals-to-expel-people-worldwide/



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23/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [ ]: NEW VIDEO OUT.

“The plan of the US federal government was to make an example of me, to say: 'If you mess with ICE, what happened to this Salvadoran journalist is going to happen to you too.' And maybe it worked, because after my arrest and deportation, many journalists became afraid.”

Mario Guevara - Salvadoran journalist

For months, Mario Guevara documented ICE's raids in the early mornings across Georgia, his home state in the US. But in June 2025, he was arrested, then held by ICE for more than 100 days, and then deported to El Salvador. Just like Mario Guevara, 32 journalists were arrested last year in the US. Nearly 90% of them were covering ICE protests.

🌍 For six months, 72 journalists from 26 media organizations across 15 countries investigated this global deportation policy.

🎥 Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3K0KoGTk8

📰 Read our investigation: https://forbiddenstories.org/projects_posts/the-deportation-project-inside-the-trump-administrations-secret-deals-to-expel-people-worldwide/



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23/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [ ] How the Trump Administration’s Policies Are Stranding People in Mexico.

Since January 2025, nearly 20,000 third country nationals removed from the United States have been sent to Mexico, about 80% of the total identified by our investigation. Many described transfers by bus lasting more than 30 hours, during which they remained shackled, were barely fed, and were often not told where they were being taken.

👉 Among them is Vicente*, a 60-year-old Cuban. He lived with his wife and son in California, where he was trying to regularize his immigration status. But he was arrested during a routine ICE check-in in August 2025, and later transferred to Mexico. He said he was never given the opportunity to contest his removal from the US.

*Vicente is a pseudonym used for security reasons.

Now stranded in Villahermosa, far from his family, he says: “I only want to be reunited with them. But there’s the uncertainty of time. I’m not 20 years old anymore. It can’t be in 10 years.”

🌍 For six months, 72 journalists from 26 media organizations across 15 countries investigated this global deportation network.

📰 Read our investigation on our website: https://forbiddenstories.org/trumps-policies-leave-thousands-in-immigration-limbo-in-mexico/



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22/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [ ]: NEW VIDEO OUT.

🎙️"I was never a criminal. I paid my due taxes. I abided by the law. All I was begging for in America was for me to get a stay."

Rabbiatu Kuyateh - Sierra Leonean deported to Ghana

In November 2025, Rabbiatu Kuyateh, a nurse who had lived and worked in the US for over 30 years, was expelled to Ghana, a country she had never set foot in, alongside 18 other deportees. She had a US judge's protection against being sent back to Sierra Leone.

But Ghana sent her there anyway in the very country she had fled decades ago for fear of persecution.

🌍 For six months, 72 journalists from 26 media organizations across 15 countries investigated Trump administration's secret deals to expel people worldwide.

🎥 Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3K0KoGTk8

📰 Read our scrollytelling: https://forbiddenstories.org/fr/vol-vers-le-ghana-expulses-des-etats-unis-vers-un-pays-inconnu/ -page



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22/09/2026

🇺🇸 [NEW VIDEO] The full story behind our investigation.

32 journalists were arrested last year in the US Nearly 90% of them were covering ICE protests. In response to mounting pressure on journalists covering US immigration and deportation policies, we teamed up with 72 journalists to uncover the Trump administration's secret deals to expel people worldwide.

👉 It took us six months to find that at least 25,447 people were deported from the US to countries where they had no ties, drawing from the work of organizations like Human Rights First, ICE Flight Monitor and Refugees International.

We identified deals with 35 countries, of which 29 have already received more than 105 deportation flights. At the heart of this system is an entity created in May 2025 within the Department of State, the Office of Remigration, which leads negotiations with foreign governments.

According to internal documents from this office seen by the Washington Post during this investigation, the Trump administration has planned to spend up to $410 million on these operations.

Watch the video for the full story behind our investigation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3K0KoGTk8



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🇺🇸 What happens after people are deported from the United States an...

22/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [ ] She had a US judge's protection against ever being sent back to Sierra Leone. Ghana sent her there anyway.

In November 2025, Rabbiatu Kuyateh - a nurse who had lived and worked in the US for over 30 years - was expelled to Ghana, a country she had never set foot in, alongside 18 other deportees. Days later, she was forced onto another plane: destination, the very country she had fled for fear of persecution.

"I was never a criminal. I paid my due taxes. I abided by the law. All I was begging for in America was for me to get a stay."

🎥 In this scrollytelling investigation - featuring exclusive video - we trace what happened to Kuyateh and others deported on the same flight, and how a legal protection meant to shield her from return to danger failed to do so.

🌍 For six months, more than 70 journalists from 26 media organizations across 15 countries investigated this global deportation network.

In partnership with FRANCE 24, Ice Tracking, Evident Media

📰 Read the full investigation on our website: https://forbiddenstories.org/flight-to-ghana-expelled-from-the-us-to-a-country-theyd-never-been-to-2/

21/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [ ] « Faites savoir au monde entier » : au Cameroun, enquêter sur les expulsés des États-Unis peut mener en détention.

Le 17 février 2026, quatre journalistes camerounais sont brièvement placés en détention à Yaoundé après s'être rendus dans un centre où des personnes expulsées des États-Unis étaient discrètement détenues. Leur matériel est confisqué et leurs images supprimées.

Avant leur interpellation, l’un d’eux avait recueilli le témoignage de deux femmes expulsées au Cameroun, un pays avec lequel elles n’ont aucun lien. « Faites savoir au monde entier qu’on n’est pas bien traité. On est en train de mourir ici. On souffre. » lui confie l’une d’elle peu avant que le journaliste ne soit arrêté.

👉 Six mois plus t**d, Forbidden Stories a retrouvé ces deux femmes et poursuivi leur travail. Nous publions aujourd'hui leur témoignage, mais aussi les images du centre dans lequel elles ont été détenues. Cette enquête révèle les dessous de l'accord entre le Cameroun et les États-Unis pour accueillir, temporairement, ces ressortissants étrangers.

Six jours avant le premier vol, le Département d'État américain a versé 30 millions de dollars au bureau camerounais du Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés - une somme que le site du gouvernement américain qui recense les dépenses fédérales rattache explicitement aux « négociations de l'accord relatif aux ressortissants de pays tiers ».

🌍 Pendant six mois, 72 journalistes issus de 26 médias ont enquêté sur ce système massif d’expulsion.

📰 Retrouvez notre enquête sur notre site : https://forbiddenstories.org/fr/faites-savoir-au-monde-entier-au-cameroun-enqueter-sur-les-expulses-des-etats-unis-peut-mener-en-detention/



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21/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [ ] Explore the Map Behind the US Third Country Deportation System

When people are deported, but not to their countries of origin... Where do they go?

Between January 2025 and August 31, 2026, at least 25,447 third country nationals were deported from the United States, according to data gathered and cross-checked by The Deportation Project based on research by Human Rights First, Ice Flight Monitor and Refugees international.

🌍 Our investigation found that at least 35 countries reached agreements with the US to accept third country nationals, with at least 28 known to have already received them. To document a system that is often difficult to track publicly, The Deportation Project created an interactive global map bringing together months of reporting and data.

👉 Follow deportation routes, uncover the agreements between the US and other countries’s governments, and see the nationalities of people deported gathered by our consortium.

The map also brings together images, videos and reporting collected over six months by 72 journalists from 26 media organizations across 15 countries.

🗺️ Dive into the data and stories behind The Deportation Project: https://forbiddenstories.org/the-deportation-project-map/ (also available in french)

Credits: Credits: Evident Media, Icetracking. org, Forbidden Stories, FRANCE 24, Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley

Data credits: Ice Flight Monitor, Third-Country Deportation Watch

Michael Sparksm Human rights first and Refugees international