Good morning. If you want to grasp the true cost of what it means to “secure our borders,” skip the panicked headlines about “mega-dinghies” arriving on British shores and the pictures of Patriot Platform’s black-clad enthusiasts, and look across the Atlantic.
Since 2025, the Trump administration has deported about 5,000 people on flights to “third countries” where they have no family ties or history, sometimes as far as Ghana and Sierra Leone. A Guardian investigation published today exposes the staggering cruelty of this sinister policy. It seems deliberately designed to stoke fear, and shows how far-right ideas that once belonged on the fringes of politics have become so mainstream that they’re now barely opposed.
