What has happened to other people
Human Rights First and Refugees International counted more than twenty-three thousand people transferred by the United States between 20 January 2025 and 15 August 2026 to twenty-six countries that were not their own, under arrangements made with more than thirty-five governments. Almost twenty thousand of those transfers were to Mexico. More than two thousand seven hundred went to other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, more than three hundred and thirty to countries in Africa, and more than two hundred elsewhere. They published those figures on 18 August 2026. Counts published since then are higher, and they do not agree with each other: at least 25,447 people sent to at least twenty-eight countries by 31 August 2026, according to Forbidden Stories; over twenty-five thousand people sent to at least thirty-one countries, according to Third Country Deportation Watch, which still dates that figure to early September 2026; over twenty-five thousand people sent to at least thirty countries as of October 2026, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants; and nearly twenty-eight thousand people sent to more than fifty countries between 20 January 2025 and 5 August 2026, according to ICE data reported by Human Rights Watch.
Many of the people sent to African countries since January 2026 held a grant of protection from a United States immigration judge against being returned to their own country. A grant of that kind is a finding that the person would be persecuted or tortured if sent home. It does not disappear because a person has been moved somewhere else.
The country you are in now
What exists around you depends entirely on which country you are in, and the differences are large. Some countries have an office of the United Nations refugee agency and some do not. Some have a national human rights commission that takes complaints in writing. In some, the embassy of your own country sits hundreds of miles away in a third capital. The Coalition is writing a guide for each country, and each one names the bodies that exist there, what they do, and how to reach them.
The question that decides everything else
Not everyone who has been moved to a third country is afraid of going home. Many never applied for withholding of removal or for protection under the Convention against Torture and do not hold either. Others hold a finding by a judge that they would be persecuted or tortured if returned. The two situations lead to entirely different sets of bodies, and the answer belongs to the person, not to anyone advising them. Each country guide sets out both, in the same detail, without recommending one.