U.S. Lining Up More Countries to Take Its Deportees

New York Times: “The expansion of the administration’s third-country deportation program appears to have two aims in the service of its overarching goal to remove millions of immigrants from the United States, including both undocumented immigrants and those who have legal status but are viewed as undesirable by the administration.”

“The first seems largely tactical: It creates a process to remove migrants whose countries of origin don’t want them back. Venezuela, for example, only sporadically accepts deportation flights from the United States.”

“The second aim, it appears, is strategic: Convince immigrants, documented or otherwise, that staying in the United States is so risky that they should ‘self-deport,’ lest they end up in a brutal prison. It’s a campaign designed for deterrence.”