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Updates: 5 November 2026
Third Country Deportation Watch recorded the first transfers to the Dominican Republic and further flights to Panama, Paraguay, Ghana, Cameroon, Liberia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Eswatini, Burundi and the Central African Republic. The Foreign Minister of Jamaica said nine of the 22 people sent there had left, a court in Arizona was told that a man sent to Equatorial Guinea was booked to fly back on 4 November, Human Rights First reported that a fourth flight to Iran may follow, and four amicus briefs were filed in the Supreme Court.
What changed in October 2026
Jamaica received its first group of people from the United States, Sierra Leone a fifth flight, and a federal court ordered a man brought back from Equatorial Guinea. Eswatini and Burundi made statements, ICE told courts that flights to Uganda are paused, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First published new counts, and the Supreme Court set its timetable.
Liberia Agreed in September 2025. Liberians Were Told in August 2026.
The agreement under which people are flown from the United States to Liberia was published by the Department of State in March 2026 and announced to Liberians in August. It sets no limit on numbers, provides nothing about lawyers, detention or monitoring, and makes signed operating procedures a condition of any transfer. No such procedures have been produced.
She Filed Her Own Habeas Petition From Detention. Two Days After Her Reply Was Docketed, She Was Flown to Liberia.
Paola Ferreira Dos Santos filed her own petition for habeas corpus from immigration detention in Texas in March. A judge ordered the government to state the status of her removal proceedings. Her reply was entered on the docket on 17 August. On 19 August she was flown to Liberia. The petition has never been decided.
Twenty Were Flown to Liberia on 20 August. Five Were Put Back on the Plane.
Roughly twenty people landed at Monrovia on 20 August. Five refused to leave the aircraft and, Reuters reported, were taken on to Equatorial Guinea. Most of the fifteen who remained had already won an order from an American court forbidding their return to their own countries.
Liberia Agreed to Take 1,200 People Who Are Not Liberian. The Times Reported a Five Million Dollar Payment.
Liberia announced it would accept up to 1,200 people removed from the United States, none of them Liberian, and called the decision entirely humanitarian. Two days later The New York Times reported a five million dollar payment.
49,571 Arrests in One Month. One Every Fifty-Four Seconds.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 49,571 people in July 2026, from the agency's own records. Al Jazeera English sets that beside more than 476,000 removal orders in nine months.
Forty Hours Outside a House in Frederick, Maryland. Then Batons, and No One Arrested.
Federal immigration agents held position outside a Frederick home for about forty hours. On the second night they drove onto the pavement, used batons on the neighbours who had gathered, and left without arresting anyone. The city police were not told the operation was happening.
He Has Held Protection Since 2018. He Was Called In Three Months Early and Listed for Equatorial Guinea.
A man who has held protection against removal since 2018 was telephoned by an immigration officer and told to report the next morning, three months before his scheduled…
Sent to a Country at War, on a Three-Month Visa
CNN International reached the people the United States transferred to the Central African Republic. Most of them hold court orders from American judges saying they cannot be sent home.