US President Donald Trump promised the voters that, if he were elected a second time, his government would pursue mass deportations of those who are not authorized to be in the country, and they seem to look far away when they pursue this goal.
But the United States now has RoHshod about the principles that it has approved as signatories for international refugee agreements and in its own legislation, many organizations say that are committed to refugees.
In particular, the principle of non -refoulement is an obligation not to return migrants to countries of origin or countries of third -party providers if their lives or freedom are threatened for reasons of breed, religion or nationality in accordance with the United Nations or if they are subjected to violations of human rights.
These principles were asked in court because the United States dealt with large migrant flows at its limits. The previous government just gained a case of the Supreme Court, which allowed him to cancel a program from Trump’s first term in which asylum seekers from other countries were sent to Mexico to wait for their US refugee claims.
The Trump administration has revived this plan, which is called a migrant protection protocols, but refugee lawyers state that many migrants in Mexico have a lack of protection, since several allegedly kidnapping and attacks have been subjected to the alleged sexual assault by El Salvador.
In certain cases, the United States does not have any expatriation agreements with the countries of origin for some of the migrants, but they are increasingly driving people out to third countries – without prior notice.
US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio recently said that the goal was to rule out “some of the most loathsome people”, but it shows that many of the deportees do not fit this characterization.
Here is a look at some countries that work with the USA, or reports in discussions with Washington.
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It was estimated that 200 migrants, including 80 children, have been deported so far Costa Rica. The migrants sent from Afghanistan, Russia, China, Pakistan, India and elsewhere to a rural camp in the Central American country.
Costa Rica has announced that most deportants would receive three months of permits for humanitarian reasons in which they are looking for an asylum or arranging ways for another country.
The conditions for what the country agreed with the White House were not transparent, the country’s English -language newspaper reported the Tico Times.
President Rodrigo Chavez was open about the reasons for the cooperative: “We help the economically powerful brother in the north, who, when they impose a tax in our free trade zone, are fooling us.”
The humanitarian organization International said that the agreements seem to be “a pronounced quo deal” in order to “make human rights violations easier in order to avoid punishing economic measures”.
At least on the surface, the Costa Rican government seems to be ready to protect the migrants.
“If the person is a reasonable fear of returning to their country, we will never send them back,” said Omer Badilla, head of the Migration Authority of Costa Rica, in the last month of the New York Time. “We will protect them.”
The Trump administration sent about 300 migrants Panama In February, with some said they had no warning where they went. Initially, they could not leave a hotel in Panama City and were then brought to a provisional facility in the Darien Gap.
As with Costa Rica, government officials have declared that they are entitled to apply for temporary humanitarian permits in Panama, although the US message in Panama on May 6th announced the fact that 81 from the group – from countries, including cameras and Bangladesch – were apparently brought to the countries of origin on a plane again.
Panama is an interesting case, since an agreement was first described in 2024 during Joe Biden’s tenure and was described as the “first attempt by this government to finance deportations in a foreign country”.
The Central American country confronted waves from migrants who exceeded a dangerous GAP route, and Washington wanted to reduce these figures. At that time, the US dollar pilot program is said to have cost US dollar, but the US message said in its above explanation in May that it provided Panama about $ 14 million.
A big one El Salvador. Trump and the President of this country, Nayib Bukele, set their agreement at a meeting recently made in the White House.
The Trump administration has given itself changed explanations of why a group of more than 230 Venezuelan migrants was not only sent to an unknown country, but was emitted to one of the most notorious prisons in El Salvador without criminal proceedings.
A democratic legislator claimed that the Trump government paid El Salvador up to $ 15 million, and the judges in more than one case have questioned the vague claims and the thin evidence that some of the migrants are gang members.
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As mentioned, Mexico Again receives migrants from other countries that have been shown by the United States, it has been reported that more than 5,400 people have been taken. President Claudia Sheinbaum recently said that “most of them voluntarily decided to return to their countries”, but the status of others is not clear.
The President of Guatemala NBC News said it was ready to take citizens from the USA, but did not expect “large number of people” in this category. It is not clear whether there have been accepted since its comments in February.
Other reported goals
Reports arose at the beginning of this month of the very real option that the United States will send some deported Libyawith a federal judge who intervenes with a temporary block for these plans. In recent years, the country has become a flashpoint for its treatment of migrants from other African countries who have been on the way to the European banks on the way or have been returned.
The view that Washington is working with Libya with a migrant agreement was “dystopian,” said Human Rights Watch in a statement.
“The abuse of migrants in Libya is notorious, his detention centers are hell holes, and refugees can now now turn to protection,” said Hanan Salah, Associate Middle East and North Africa director for the organization.
Olivier Nduhungirehe, Foreign Minister of Rwandaconfirmed the Associated Press in early May that the talks with the USA about a potential agreement on deported migrants were underway after they had told the state media that the talks in the “early phase” were.
Rwanda’s long -time autocrat Paul Kagame does not look any real resistance to his re -election, since numerous human rights organizations have accused his regime, illegally imprisoned or disappear dissident and political enemies.
The United States would not be the first country to see Rwanda as the destination for migrants. The conservative government of Great Britain was prepared to even revise the legislation after the Supreme Court of Great Britain had declared in the decision that Rwanda could not be considered a safe third country. Ultimately, no migrants were sent there when the Labor Party scrapped the program after winning the 2024 elections.
Would other governments be compensated by the United States in exchange for the reception of migrants? It is not clear, but the Vice President of Equatorial guinea Recently on X said that such discussions had taken place with the United States, an assertion that was not confirmed independently. The country is constantly on the list of the most corrupt countries of Transparency International and is led by the longest -reigning autocrate in the world.
The Washington Post, citing US government documents that she had checked, reported on May 6th that the White House had pushed Ukraine to accept an unadorned number of deportees from other countries. It was not clear what the Ukrainian government’s answer was and the Ministry of Homeland Security did not answer the post for a comment.
Trump complained that hundreds of billions of dollars were issued in Ukraine in Ukraine in Ukraine administration after the invasion of Russia in early 2022. In return, the White House under Trump has given the two countries recently agreed on a joint investment fund in order to deal with the mineral resources of Ukraine.
