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.
She Won Her Case, and Was Deported Anyway: A Maryland Nurse Sent Through Ghana
On September 17, 2025 an immigration judge granted Rabbiatu Kuyateh withholding of removal to Sierra Leone, and both sides waived appeal. Forty-nine days later the United States flew her to Ghana without telling her where she was going, and six days after that Ghanaian officers dragged her out of a hotel and flew her to Sierra Leone.