Third-country removals: Trump’s deportation policy by the numbers

Twenty-five thousand people shipped to countries that were never theirs. The count is public; the destinations were the secret.

Since January 2025, the Trump administration has deported more than 25,000 people to so-called “third countries” – places that are not their countries of origin. Working with a team of 26 international media outlets, Forbidden Stories and FRANCE 24 have used information gathered by NGOs and open-source information to count and map these deportations. Our investigation shines a light on the scale of this mass deportation campaign that is being carried out under the cover of darkness.

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