François Picard is pleased to welcome Washington Post national security reporter Adam Taylor. The Forbidden Stories consortium, involving France 24 and 25 other media outlets, has spent six months investigating the thousands of people abruptly deported from the United States to third countries, amid concerns over due process and their ability to challenge their removal. The investigation examines how the Trump administration has made deportation a major focus of both US immigration and foreign policy.
It raises fundamental questions about due process and non-refoulement: the principle that people should not be returned to places where they face persecution or torture - as deportees can be sent to countries with which they have no connection and, in some cases, where they may face persecution, torture or prolonged detention.
