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The Trump administration has brokered deportation deals with countries with notorious human rights records or those facing conflicts as it seeks to ramp up mass deportations.
South Sudan, Libya, Eswatini, Rwanda, El Salvador, among others, have agreed to take in deportees from the United States regardless of the migrants' nationalities.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
About 80 people were being prepared to board a deportation flight headed to the Polish border with Ukraine, but only 50 people ended up in Ukraine, Ukrainian border officials said.
Lawyers for some of the men raised concerns that international law doesn't allow deportations to places where people could face violence or torture.
The Trump administration has brokered deportation deals with countries with notorious human rights records or those facing conflicts, as it seeks to ramp up mass deportations.
South Sudan, Libya, Eswatini, Rwanda, El Salvador, among others, have agreed to take in deportees from the United States regardless of the migrants' nationalities.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
In 2018, amid a rise in people crossing the southern border, the Trump administration created a policy also known as metering.
Under this policy, border officers physically blocked some people from seeking asylum at ports of entry along the southern border, turning them back to Mexico.
Immigration advocates sued, arguing that in order to request asylum at the border, migrants needed to physically enter.
while forcing them to wait in Mexico where they could face other dangers.
The Biden administration rescinded the policy, and now the Trump administration is asking for the option to bring it back.
Arguments are slated for next summer.
Jimena Bustillo, Empire News, Washington.
The FBI warned of at least five documented instances where people in New York, North Carolina, and Florida impersonated immigration and customs enforcement agents.
They then threatened immigrants, committed kidnappings, and assault.
Immigrant advocates have warned about the potential for abuse with agents who wear masks and plain clothes, making it easier to impersonate them.
The Homeland Security Department has previously said that it is a crime to impersonate a federal officer.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.