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Reported Documents Reveal An Expanding Deportation Campaign. ICE Is Sending Afghans and Latin Americans to Africa.

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The Trump administration has dramatically expanded its use of "third-country" deportations, sending more than 100 people from Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua and other nations to eight African countries over 10 days, according to a new report.

The deportees were transported aboard three Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights to Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Liberia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, according to an exclusive CBS News report. None of those removed were citizens of the African countries where they were sent.

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