Since taking office for his second term in January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump has significantly expanded his administration’s policy of deporting non-citizen migrants to third-party countries, fulfilling a core campaign pledge to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history. As of mid-2026, human rights organizations estimate that more than 25,000 migrants have already been forcibly transferred to countries that are not their countries of origin under the policy, a figure that researchers warn may be an undercount of the true scale of the program.
VS voert uitzettingen naar derde landen op, ondanks kritiek op mensenrechten
