More than 25,000 people have been deported by the United States to countries other than their own since Donald Trump returned to power. As part of The Deportation Project, coordinated by Forbidden Stories – a Paris-based journalism network that pursues the work of reporters who have been threatened, jailed or killed – RFI is publishing investigations into how this policy operates, with their findings exposing a global system backed by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Arsaalan Saleh Fard, a 25-year-old Iranian, fled his country hoping to find refuge in the United States.