The Trump administration is deporting illegal immigrants to third countries instead of their home countries.
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VINCEOct 28, 2026
The sources strongly support that the Trump administration has deported roughly 25,000 people to more than two dozen third countries, most of them to Mexico.
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… 60 Minutes did a segment this past weekend. I, I don't know what 60 Minutes has done to deserve all of the spankings I've been giving them, but but they've been very naughty, so we'll give them another spanking here. 60 Minutes did a segment this weekend alleging that the Trump administration is engaged in torturing human beings by deporting them to third countries. Third countries, as in not their home countries. So these are people who are here in the country illegally, who should not be here at all, and the Trump administration is using a tool that other administrations have used in the past, which is to send these people to third countries, uh, to remove them from …
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Contradicts. The administration says it sends people to third countries when their home countries won't accept them or they cannot be returned there, so third-country removal is a fallback rather than a preferred alternative to home-country removal, which undercuts the 'instead of' wording.[3][4]
Supports. Multiple tier-1 and tier-2 sources report that the administration has deported more than 25,000 people to countries other than their own, with the vast majority sent to Mexico and others to about 29 third countries.[1][2][3][5]
Context. The Supreme Court on 2026-09-29 let the policy resume pending a final ruling after arguments in December, and lower courts had ruled the policy unlawful; this describes the policy's legal status, not whether the removals occurred.[1][6][7]
Context. Migration Policy Institute reports third-country removals represent an expansion in scale and reach compared with earlier practice, and that some deportees were moved onward to unsafe destinations.[8]
Sources
8 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 2 tier 2, 4 not rated
- 1Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries not their ownreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2How President Trump Ended the Border Invasion and ...whitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Supreme Court lets Trump continue deporting people to 3rd countries while justices consider policypbs.org · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 4Trump administration turns to Supreme Court as third-country ...krgv.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5Third-country removals: Trump’s deportation policy by the numbersfrance24.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Supreme Court allows Trump's 'third country' deportation ...nbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 7Supreme Court allows rapid third-country deportations, for nowinquirer.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8How the United States Is Using Third Countries to Expand ...migrationpolicy.org · not rated · cited for: context
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