While President-Elect Donald Trump prepares plans for a wide-ranging deportation campaign, logistical challenges arise, particularly with countries that resist accepting deportees. Deportable individuals include those with criminal convictions, pending charges, or exhausted appeals. Yet, even with final removal orders, deportations are hindered by countries refusing or delaying repatriation.
For example, Cuba, China, Venezuela, and India account for some of the highest numbers of deportable people but accept only a fraction. Since 2005, Cuba has taken back just 4,662 of its 42,084 deportable citizens. China and Venezuela show similarly low acceptance rates, the Washington Post reports. In this regard, there are 22,749 deportable Venezuelans in the U.S., but the country has only accepted 5,862 people in the past 20 years.
