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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Trump’s deportations to third countries violate human rights, UN experts warn

Liberian police officers and medical staff on duty at an airport
Liberian police officers await a plane carrying migrants deported from the US. The West African country has agreed to accept 1,200 people deported under Donald Trump's border crackdown. Photograph: Matthew Jacobs/AFP/Getty Images

The deportation of thousands of migrants from the US to third countries has set off a “cascade of human rights violations” that could have “deadly” consequences, two dozen UN human rights experts have warned.

Since Donald Trump returned to power in 2025, the US government has been offering millions of dollars to foreign governments to take in migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, with no ties to their countries. Deals have been struck with 35 nations, nearly a third of them in Africa.

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