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  • The US said it had no choice but to deport them to a third country. Then it sent them home

    08/02/2025 1:14:18 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 21 replies
    Reuters ^ | August 2, 202512:17 PM CDT | Kristina Cooke and Ted Hesson
    Summary Trump administration seeks to deport more migrants to third countries Critics ask why migrants can't be deported home instead Trump tactic stokes fear amid push for mass deportations WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Trump administration says that some serious criminals need to be deported to third countries because even their home countries won't accept them. But a review of recent cases shows that at least five men threatened with such a fate were sent to their native countries within weeks.President Donald Trump aims to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally and his administration has sought to...
  • Exclusive-Trump administration directs ICE agents to find, deport unaccompanied migrant children

    02/23/2025 11:32:10 AM PST · by 11th_VA · 22 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | Marisa Taylor, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke Sun, February 23, 2025
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is directing immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, expanding the president's mass deportation effort, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo outlines an unprecedented push to target migrant children who crossed the border illegally as unaccompanied minors. It lays out four phases of implementation, beginning with a planning phase on January 27, though it did not provide a start date for enforcement operations. More than 600,000 immigrant children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without...
  • White House to honor ICE 'heroes' after family separation fiasco

    08/16/2018 6:47:02 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 8 replies
    Politico ^ | Aug 16, 2018 | Ted Hesson
    The Trump White House is planning an event next week to honor federal immigration agents — even as more than 500 migrant children remain separated from their parents after being separated at the border. The “Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs [and] Border Protection" is scheduled for Aug. 20 in the East Room, an administration official confirmed, in the latest signal that the Trump administration anticipates the midterm fallout from its zero-tolerance border policy very differently from its critics. The ceremony is ready-made to provoke ire from opponents of the zero tolerance policy, some...