US paid $32m to five countries to accept about 300 deportees, report shows

The practice of deporting some migrants to countries they have no connection to has been described as a US government ‘scare tactic’. Photograph: John Angelillo/UPI/Shutterstock

The Trump administration has spent more than $1m per person to deport some migrants to countries they have no connection to, only to see many sent back to their home nations at further taxpayer expense, according to a new congressional investigation.

A 30-page report from Senate foreign relations committee Democrats, released on Thursday and shared with the Guardian, details how the US government paid more than $32m to five foreign governments – including some of the world’s most corrupt regimes – to accept approximately 300 third-country nationals deported from the US.