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Reports and analysis on torture prevention, OPCAT ratifications, UN treaty body sessions, and human rights documentation, sourced from OHCHR, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the Coalition monitoring work.
The Rules Say the Country Must Be Named. Two Courts Said So in 1998 and 1999.
Two provisions of the removal regulations require the immigration judge to identify the alternative countries on the record, and to tell a person who fears one of them that he may apply for protection against being sent there. Courts of appeals said the same in 1998 and 1999. In O.C.G.'s hearing no alternative country was identified, and when he raised Mexico himself he was told it could not happen.
A Man With Protection From Guatemala Was Put on a Bus to Mexico. Mexico Sent Him Back to Guatemala.
An immigration judge found he would more likely than not suffer serious harm in Guatemala. Two days later he was removed to Mexico without notice, and Mexico sent him to Guatemala. A federal judge ordered the government to bring him back, and the court has since recorded that the government did.
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…
CGTN America on the Expansion of Third-Country Removals
A Chinese state broadcaster covering removals from the United States to Africa. Carried as commentary, labelled as state media, and relied on for nothing.
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.
Armed Police Draw Weapons on People Held in Malabo, for the Second Time in Five Weeks
Reuters obtained footage from inside the Bamy Hotel in Malabo. It began when a man asked for the phone he needed to call his lawyer.
Nineteen Seconds on a Local Broadcast. The Ruling Itself Is the Citation.
A North Carolina broadcaster reported in nineteen seconds that a federal judge held the third-country removal policy unlawful. The clip is worth carrying. It is not a substitute for the ruling.