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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump’s ‘cruel and lawless’ deportation scheme spent $44M sending 17,500 people to places they’ve never been, report finds

When 15 immigrants from Latin America boarded a deportation flight in shackles last month, they had no idea Donald Trump’s administration was sending them to the Congo.

Months earlier, 19 men were sent to the tiny land-locked African nation of Eswatini, the continent’s only absolute monarchy. Eight others were sent to South Sudan, where a dire humanitarian crisis fueled by warring parties has put millions of people on the brink of starvation.

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