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60 Minutes investigates "third-country deportations"

60 MinutesOctober 23, 20260m
In a Nutshell

The US has deported 25,000 migrants to third countries with no ties to them, some of which immediately return them to the home countries US courts ruled unsafe. Ghana deportees report knowing no one there and question whether the US is deliberately ignoring evidence of this practice. A US official is shown issuing an arrest warrant to one such deportee.

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The US has deported 25,000 people to countries that many of them have no connection to. Some of those countries are sending them straight back to the home countries US judges said they should not be returned to.

I don't know no one to Ghana.

I just sort of wonder if the US government is sort of looking the other way when there's evidence in front of them.

A US official states: "So, we got a warrant for your arrest."

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