Most deportees arrive from the US, Australia, and New Zealand.
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VICE: So how did you first learn about Tongan deportees?
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Why did the deportees appeal to you as a photographer?
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The cause of deportees "has very few costs," he said.
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It's rare for deportees to get another shot at asylum.
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They thought all American deportees were killers and murderers and thieves.
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Nahidh, like other deportees has no right to remain in America.
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And some deportees have, in fact, been killed after their return.
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From there, the deportees will be transported across the border by bus.
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Nearly all the deportees in recent years have been from Central America.
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Recently, one such flight carried deportees to Somalia, an ICE spokeswoman said.
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There they met deportees stepping off the Dominican Immigration Ministry's yellow school buses.
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It's a topic there all the time, people are always referencing the deportees.
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In any case, it argues, none of the deportees qualifies for political asylum.
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Last year, El Comedor served 44,000 meals to recently arrived deportees, Williams said.
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In 1937, large numbers of Korean deportees were forced to settle in Almaty.
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The figures do not state when the deportees arrived in the United States.
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The deportees then asked him to leave them in case the Taliban returned.
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That will expand the pool of potential deportees from around 2m to 8m-11m.
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As a result, deportees were forced to urinate in water bottles and on themselves.
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I had enrolled in a program they had to help deportees reintegrate into society.
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"Bienvenido a Mexico," she says as she welcomes the wave of deportees walking by.
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Most of the deportees were from India's northern Punjab state, an Indian official said.
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THE police had prepared for violence, but in the end the deportees went quietly.
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Marimba music pipes through loudspeakers as deportees who've just arrived file through the door.
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And local media coverage of the latest waves of arriving deportees has been bleak.
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Mr. Trump said he would swiftly sanction countries that decline to receive criminal deportees.
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But like many deportees, his children are in Australia, where he hopes to return.
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Some of the deportees were said to be from Central Asia and Southeast Asia.
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In addition, there were another 130 Mexican deportees, many also staying in the shelters.
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But Germany has found it difficult to get North African countries to accept deportees.
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That includes deportees like the Surabaya preacher and the families who followed his teachings.
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico's president dashed to the airport to greet a planeload of deportees.
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Some deportees have waited weeks, months and in one case more than a year.
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Record-high deportations from the U.S. dismantle the lives of deportees and their families.
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The government must also develop a program for deportees who have been returned to Indonesia.
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German officials' insistence that parts of Afghanistan are safe for deportees sounds ever less plausible.
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As part of the deal, Baghdad consented to issue travel documents to deportees from America.
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Agency spokesman Bryan Cox said deportees are handcuffed on ICE Air flights for officer safety.
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The deportees boarded an ICE-chartered plane in Louisiana bound for Somalia on December 7.
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When the Taliban left with their busloads of prisoners, he began walking with the deportees.
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To be sure, voluntary returnees and deportees say that landing in Mexico can have upsides.
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It is here where flights from the US filled with Guatemalan deportees arrive almost daily.
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Nguyen volunteers with the Southeast Asian Coalition nonprofit and has been working with the deportees.
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Now they were both deportees, sizing each other up in a country they barely knew.
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Deportees are "very loyal," a recruiter for a call center told the news service McClatchy.
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"The gangsters strip deportees and torture them, looking for gang signs and tattoos," Martínez said.
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Continuous riots and violence lock down roads and airports, recently trapping a bus of deportees.
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What all deportees share is a knowledge of how fragile nationality and identity can be.
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Despite Mexico's harsh immigration enforcement, most of the deportees plan to try to migrate again immediately.
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Chartered flights full of deportees from the United States regularly arrive to the Central American country.
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The countries prefer small numbers of deportees to be sent at any one time, he added.
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The rest, he says, just figure all deportees are rapists and murderers and steer well clear.
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For Tohifolau, the two issues—criminal deportees and the rise of drugs like meth—are intertwined.
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Even jobless deportees are still seen as coming from the more monied and privileged United States.
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It seems now the wall may be a fence, and the deportees will be only criminals.
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None of the deportees let on that he was among them, however, and the insurgents left.
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Instead, he was swept up in a rising number of deportees being dumped in Mexico's lap.
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An intergovernmental group began on Monday to study ways to help integrate deportees into Mexican society.
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But it remained unclear how many of the deportees in his promised dragnet would be Mexican.
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The flight from Tucson to Guadalajara on Thursday carried approximately 150 Mexican deportees, according to ICE.
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The agency also shuttles deportees on charter flights to Europe, Asia and Africa, though less frequently.
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During the flight, wrist shackles come off only while the deportees eat or use the restroom.
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After Mr. Clay's death, South Korean government officials said they were discussing better protection for deportees.
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But this week, the Home Office was organizing a charter flight to Jamaica to transport deportees.
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Tamai heads the group Angeles Sin Fronteras, which advocates for deportees and homeless people in the city.
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However, relatives of the deportees complained of a lack of support or information from authorities in Taiwan.
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Taiwan has learned that the initial eight deportees are being held at a detention center in Beijing.
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Combined with a lack of good legal advice, this can lead desperate deportees to make bad decisions.
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Like Williams, Zuniga insists that government must step up its efforts to reintegrate deportees into Mexican society.
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It includes a proposed special airport to be built in Afghanistan to deal with newly arrived deportees.
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Among the deportees was Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villarreal, who is nearly as notorious as Mr Guzmán.
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On a separate issue, Cambodia's Foreign Affairs Ministry said it would accept deportees from the United States.
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The next morning, she was put onto a bus with other deportees and driven to an airport.
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In February, the two governments held talks on the repatriations, and 16 deportees have arrived this year.
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She's heard that tourist towns on Mexico's Caribbean coast have hospitality jobs for deportees who speak English.
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"The deportees are hugely stigmatized," Juan José Martínez, an anthropologist who studies the Salvadoran gangs, told me.
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Deportees who are older, speak unsteady English, or don't have computer skills can't get call-center jobs.
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Since the March 12 agreement with Iraq regarding deportees, eight Iraqi nationals have been removed to Iraq.
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The flight carrying Mexican deportees from Tucson, Arizona, landed in the central city of Guadalajara around midday.
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One immigration shelter in the city said it had been informed of a likely influx of deportees.
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Deportees were called amiche, a reference to Italian cars assembled in Ethiopia with parts manufactured in Eritrea.
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Thai immigration chief Surachate Hakparn told media all eight deportees were willing to return to their countries.
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This could provide a steady flow of potential deportees without having to conduct costly and time-consuming searches.
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Li did not answer directly when pressed what guarantees China would give that deportees would not be tortured.
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In 22005 it was reported that 218 deportees had been returned to Tonga in the preceding five years.
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Eighty-three U.S. deportees to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador reportedly have already been murdered in their homelands.
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It's a terrifying process for most deportees, who arrive at these ports of entry disoriented, tired, and scared.
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New shelters were opened, and Kino, which operates a free kitchen for immigrants and deportees, expanded its operations.
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As deportees with criminal histories were sent back to their home countries, the gangs spread throughout Central America.
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Vietnam accepted at least 11 deportees, and the US began detaining Vietnamese immigrants who had final deportation orders.
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Many deportees did not survive to make it back to Crimea after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Regional officers also arrested immigrants with little prospect of deportation because their homelands habitually refuse to accept deportees.
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And new research from Amnesty International revealed that Sudanese deportees faced nearly identical scenarios after arriving in Uganda.
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Transporting deportees to their home countries cost an average of $1,978 per person in 2016, according to ICE.
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From July 2017 to this May, PARS assisted 221 deportees, up from 144 in the previous financial year.
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One reason Guatemala doesn't do much with deportees is the widespread belief that they won't stay for long.
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This program enabled raids, targeting possible deportees inside and outside of the jail system and potential immigrant criminals.
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Deportees are no longer seen as the founders of the gangs but as threats to the new order.
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The public security ministry said on Tuesday 50 Chinese nationals were also sent back with the Taiwanese deportees.
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Consular officials from Mexico, where a majority of deportees come from, are quick to respond, immigration officials said.
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MS-13 is almost certain to take advantage of the impending disruption as deportees arrive in El Salvador.
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After interviewing the deportees, the Bangladeshi authorities concluded that they had embraced radical Islam in Singapore, not in Bangladesh.
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The report placed blame on Salvadoran gangs for targeting deportees and the Salvadoran government for failing to protect them.
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I just wanted the only thing you know, looking at these photos, to be that these guys are deportees.
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Some deportees, including children, were so malnourished or sick they did not survive their return to Nigeria, said HRW.
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What tends to lie in store for these deportees and returnees in Mexico is usually low-paying service employment.
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Luis Videgaray also said the Mexican government was helping deportees from the United States to retain their U.S. assets.
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Lopez started Deportados Unidos, which translates to, "Deportees United," three months after arriving in Mexico City on September, 2016.
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Since then, the group has grown to about 60 as more recent deportees began adopting and supporting the project.
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Many of the Bisbee deportees had Spanish or Slavic surnames, and their removal has an element of ethnic cleansing.
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El Salvador has been struggling beneath the weight of these deportees and the turbulent dynamic they brought with them.
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One agent took pictures of himself having sex with a minor in a foreign country after dropping off deportees.
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None of the handful of deportees who were found guilty of more serious crimes had languished in immigration detention.
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He says he now wants to help other deportees adjust to life here as well as he eventually managed to.
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A government official told VICE that the total number of deportees living in Tonga could be as high as 230.
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At some ports of entry, Mexican officials would have personnel on hand to help process deportees 24 hours a day.
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But if the increasingly hostile attitude toward deportees among many wealthy Tijuana citizens is any indication, things could get worse.
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Previously, the US were removing people on a limited basis, which Raoul says amounted to around 50 deportees a month.
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If deportees lack the tattoos that mark them as gangbangers, they can find work as English teachers or tour guides.
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Most Chechens have a grandfather or grandmother brought up in exile; many of the deportees died of cold and hunger.
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Some come from countries that do not accept deportees from the United States, and so they cannot be sent back.
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Deportees are shackled by their wrists and ankles on charter flights and on commercial flights if they are being escorted.
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His emotional and mental health would also likely take a significant hit; deportees often suffer from depression and social isolation.
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Tunisia has agreed to take back expelled migrants by charter flights, accounting for about 40 deportees aboard the twice-weekly flights.
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Slack said the increase in violence in Juárez began in 2016 — before the wave of migrants and deportees in the city.
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But in smaller ports of entry where Mexican officials work normal daytime hours, US authorities would simply drop the deportees off.
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"This administration has been trying to exert diplomatic pressure and, in essence, bully these recalcitrant countries to accept deportees," Lapinig said.
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Todd's most recent visit to Tonga was as the associate producer of VICE New Zealand's Gangsters in Paradise: Deportees of Tonga.
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And I also heard from someone at Oakdale that deportees sent there were getting shot when they arrived at the airport.
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He was able to remain in America until now because the Iraqis refused to let deportees from America into their country.
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When legal cases are complex or a detainee's birth country does not allow or accept deportees, detention can effectively become indefinite.
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Deportees are provided with a meal on the flight and a take-home plastic bag filled with water, snacks and paperwork.
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Iraq recently agreed to accept deportees in exchange for being removed from the countries listed in President Donald Trump's travel ban.
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Repeal of DACA is a statement by President Donald Trump that the Dreamers may move up the line of possible deportees.
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It was allowed because Ms. Jamaladinova framed it as a personal anthem devoted to her grandmother, who was among the deportees.
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He's had no further trouble with the law, and was never deported, because Iraq had for decades refused to accept deportees.
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Fifteen deportees arrived by chartered flight from Germany on Tuesday, while 19 landed on Wednesday from Austria and 10 from Sweden.
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As she sat in the government center for deportees, she was overwhelmed by a sense of defeat from her unfulfilled journey.
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Tens of thousands of deportees survive in Germany on six-month permits, long a choke point in the country's migration system.
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The deportees had social cachet and a sense of organizational structure, and the war veterans had experience in kidnapping and torture.
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Many of the deportees I spoke to were wary of the place, and sought work at more permissive alternatives, like Sykes.
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During that time, the highest number of civilian casualties took place in Kabul Province, the very place deportees are being sent.
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Most deportees committed their crimes young, and signed plea deals they hadn't understood would get their green cards revoked, Levin said.
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In the past, diplomats have urged caution on this front, not wanting to disrupt international relationships over the issue of deportees.
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Manuel de Jesús Ríos Reyes, 55, stood in the unforgiving sun outside a reception center for deportees from the United States.
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" The result, he says, is that deportees "end up doing the things they did in the States to survive here in Tonga.
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Immigration officials point out that most of the Cambodian deportees have been convicted of crimes that put their immigration status in jeopardy.
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It wasn't until years later, when the Cambodian government agreed to take in deportees in 2002, that he got the official call.
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Iraq recently said it would accept deportees in exchange for being removed from the countries listed in President Donald Trump's travel ban.
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Gangs had overrun his home town in Mexico, and deportees were prime targets for crime, since they were presumed to have money.
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Ahmad — he wouldn't give a last name — guessed that about half of Pul-i-Sokhta's 2150 or so residents were recent deportees.
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Thoughts of suicide are markedly higher among deportees with strong ties to the U.S. than among the rest of the deported population.
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Deported without resources, without even an ID, and without the necessary cultural competency, deportees face repeat detention, violence, even torture or murder.
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Above all, they do not view residents of high-crime areas as potential suspects or deportees but as partners in public safety.
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The Republican president has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration, including policies on which deportees can remain free during pending cases.
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Inasmuch as the migrants could help stabilize the Central American region, the United States could also benefit from the skills of deportees.
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The couple was trying to gather the money for Ms. Piñero's plane ticket back to Venezuela, which deportees are required to pay.
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An Iraqi official previously said Iraqi diplomatic and consular missions would coordinate with U.S. authorities to issue travel documents for the deportees.
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"There's a lot of deportees out here," he said, when I asked why this village in particular seemed so badly afflicted by meth.
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Jean Pierre's story is particularly timely in how it shows what potentially life-threatening pitfalls await even the most resourceful and resilient deportees.
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Many deportees will look for ways to get back to the United States, joining the 250 Salvadoreans who leave the country every day.
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The other 5843% are not innocent; they are multiple deportees, they are people who have been fleeing from the law, they are fugitives.
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Indeed, by some accounts, the gangs keep an eye on the buses arriving in San Salvador and unloading deportees, who become sitting ducks.
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With Trump taking a tough stance on undocumented immigrants, he ruled out a common path for many deportees - back into the United States.
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In early September, a suicide bomb blew out the windows in Kabul's Roshan Plaza Hotel, which was full of recent deportees from Norway.
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Most, it appears, are heading to the United States for the first time, though a sizable contingent are deportees trying to get back.
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Over the course of three weeks our team surveyed and interviewed more than 200 returning Mexican migrants, the vast majority of them deportees.
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El Salvador is home to 6.34 million people; the 200,000 deportees from the United States would mean a population increase of 3 percent.
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There are regularly scheduled charter flights to countries that have a large and steady number of deportees, such as El Salvador and Honduras.
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But amid the Trump administration's increase of Southeast Asian deportations, Vietnam acquiesced to American pressure and, in 2017, began to accept Montagnard deportees.
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Sending them home would strain the Honduran economy, which relies on remittances from abroad and could not integrate tens of thousands of deportees.
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Many deportees might stay in Tijuana to remain near friends and relatives in the United States or to wait for a chance to return.
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And with more deportees expected, the city is again looking for a way to eliminate the eyesore of homelessness — and that has Zuniga worried.
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The top official in the Australian state of Victoria wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Turnbull offering to take in the possible deportees.
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But among the bustling clubs and zebra-painted donkeys, there are also thousands of deportees in the city who find their lives in limbo.
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Mexican authorities are likely to fight that provision, demanding any removals be made to the deportees' home countries, as had been done until now.
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But hours after the blast, the government in Berlin said that a flight carrying deportees bound for Afghanistan scheduled for Wednesday had been postponed.
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In El Salvador, Sykes came to be known, in English, as "homieland," because so many of its employees were deportees from the United States.
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But Iraq agreed in 2017 to accept U.S. deportees as part of a deal to remove it from the Trump administration's travel ban list.
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Self-proclaimed "sex guru" Alexander Kirillov, 38, a fellow Belarussian among the deportees, told media the group had been seeking deportation since last March.
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The roundup followed Iraq's agreement to accept deportees as part of a deal that removed the country from President Donald Trump's revised temporary travel ban.
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Proceeds from the party, which stretched well past sunrise, went toward Al Otro Lado—a legal aid group that works with deportees, migrants, and refugees.
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Deportees declined to be interviewed, fearful for relatives still in the Gulf or hoping to return when tensions between Lebanon and the GCC calm down.
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Since almost none of the deportees have any identification, they can also get help obtaining a Mexican ID card, which will help them find work.
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Police launched raids in El Bordo and other areas, rounding up thousands of deportees and scattering those who escaped to other parts of the city.
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The Washington Times reported earlier this year that 8 of 20 countries that had been resistant to accepting deportees from the U.S. are now complying.
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In Mexico City, deportees can receive unemployment allowance for up to six months, and sign up for training schemes to facilitate integration into the workforce.
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The government never discloses how many are held in detention centers, saying there are about 360 beds and deportees are normally repatriated within three weeks.
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Narrator: So far, the company has used about half of its profits to help at least 250 recent deportees re-adjust to life in Mexico.
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The Khmer Vulnerability Aid Organization, which receives American funding to help deportees start new lives in Cambodia, expects around 19963 people to arrive this year.
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Mr. Herod said that the exact number and arrival date of deportees often change because of variables including last-minute legal challenges and weather complications.
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Mexico City and several states are welcoming deportees by easing their way into social programs like public health insurance or small loans to start businesses.
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The U.S., meanwhile, was deporting people at such a rapid pace that often it didn't bother to send deportees' criminal records to the Salvadoran authorities.
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Levin, lawyers and human rights activists argue that if deportations can't be halted, the U.S. and Iraqi governments should at least give deportees proper documents.
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On my recent trip there, I saw shelters at capacity and met with social service organizations stretched to a breaking point, having to provide for both the uptick in migrants from Central America as well as Mexican deportees from the U.S. "I think everyone is generally overwhelmed," a local civil society leader told me, a consistent theme I heard from migrants, asylum-seekers, deportees and local partners.
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" Sione remembers the promise "to raise money for the deportees to build some kind of institution that could help… they got funded, a lot of money.
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Refugee rights organization Pro Asyl said 51 of the 69 deportees were booked on to the flight by the government of Bavaria, run by Seehofer's CSU.
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Until 22011, Vietnam was one of those countries — it refused to issue travel papers for would-be US deportees, preventing the US from sending them back.
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About 212 deportees arrive in Tijuana each day, according to Mexico's Migration Institute -- so many that the city has been nicknamed the deportee capital of Mexico.
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"Everyone knows they are coming," said Rebecca Sharpless, director of the University of Miami law school's Immigration Clinic and one of the lawyers representing the deportees.
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Both times, Cuong was warned that his crimes made him eligible for deportation under U.S. law, but at the time Vietnam was not accepting deportees back.
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The Taiwanese government was incensed that Kenyan authorities used force, including tear gas, to get deportees out of a police station and into a plane on Tuesday.
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Critics say automatic deportations would violate European Convention on Human Rights rules applied to families, as deportees could leave dependent relatives behind, exposing them to financial hardship.
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Up until May of 2016, Tijuana was home to five shelters that housed migrants—largely US deportees, Central Americans, and Mexicans internally displaced by cartel-related violence.
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The roundup followed Iraq's agreement to accept deportees, as part of a deal that removed the country from President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban signed in March.
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Their details have been cross-referenced with other sources, including Nazi documentation, railroad company documents, material from war crimes trials and the diaries and testimonies of deportees.
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"Many of the deportees would be accompanied by their US-born children, many of whom would be vulnerable to recruitment by gangs," warned the section on Honduras.
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Just across the Rio Grande, in the Mexican city of Reynosa, a dozen recent deportees and U.S.-bound migrants gathered near a cross that memorialized dead migrants.
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In the melee as the buses were being loaded, the lieutenant surrounded himself with civilians and quickly stripped his uniform off, then mingled in with the deportees.
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Op-Ed Contributor On a recent Wednesday, 75 Guatemalans disembarked from one of three charter flights, all full of deportees from the United States, scheduled that day.
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One by one the deportees marched, flanked on each side by the uniformed men, curses and threats accompanying the thud of their feet on the frozen ground.
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When she was first launching her company, which teaches young deportees in Mexico how to code, she said investors would often only address her male co-founder.
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A federal government program, Somos Mexicanos or We Are Mexicans, offers to link deportees with public services and job banks, but advocates say its scope is limited.
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" A statement from Singapore's Home Ministry said the deportees "supported the armed jihad ideology of terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Between filming for the documentary, Todd found the time to take this intimate series of portraits of the deportees VICE met—some of whom appeared in the film.
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Six Michigan lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives urged the government to hold off on the removals until Congress can be given assurances about the deportees' safety.
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No U.S. government body monitors the fate of deportees, and immigrant-aid groups typically lack the resources to document what happens to those who have been sent back.
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Like Juan Sr., many deportees were raised largely in the United States and often lack the Spanish-language prowess and support systems necessary for assimilating into El Salvador.
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A warm welcome At Guatemala City's airport, officials hustle the deportees off the plane to a reception area that most passengers arriving in the country's capital never see.
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"There is a war against the Taliban, against Daesh (Islamic State), against Al Qaeda and this year we will have more forced deportees than last year," he said.
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In November, after Osius had resigned, Tillerson wrote back to say that the "status quo on repatriation cannot continue" and that Vietnam needed to take back more deportees.
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"It crept up on us quite suddenly," said Tui Ah Loo, chief executive of PARS, a charitable organization that supports both deportees with criminal histories and domestic prisoners.
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The combined effect could have thrown Mexico into deep recession as it dealt with millions of deportees and a diplomatic crisis with the world's No. 1 military power.
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Al Otro Lado: This bi-national organization provides legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S. Donate here.
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Immigrants' advocates say the Mexican government isn't doing enough to address the crisis, and local charities don't have the capacity to deal with a big wave of deportees.
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That changed after Iraq agreed in March to start accepting U.S. deportees as part of a deal that removed the country from President Donald Trump's revised temporary travel ban.
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Like members of the migrant caravan, the deportees, many of whom have lives and families back in the United States, are waiting to try to cross back into America.
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"I tried several times in the past 15 months to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help my husband," the wife of one of the deportees told CNN.
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Al Otro Lado: This bi-national organization works providing legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S. Donate here.
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For instance, a 2015 study by Mexico's National Institute of Migration of deportees in Tijuana found that 1 in 4 had a high school diploma and most spoke English.
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The administration acknowledged in the ICE conference call that DHS does not now have the right to push deportees into Mexico, said the Democratic aide familiar with the conversation.
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The stain on his record has stopped Lopez securing call center jobs but the father of two now works with a non-profit training other deportees for such work.
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Some of the story I knew already: Two weeks earlier, his testimony had appeared in a widely publicized study based on interviews with him and 18 other Eritrean deportees.
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While Chinese authorities promised the deportees would be able to receive visits from family and Taiwanese officials, they face less likelihood of due process in China than in Taiwan.
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Deportees with a spouse and dependent child are four times more likely to intend to return than those without families in the U.S., despite the serious penalties if caught.
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Considering recent estimates of the prevalence of rape, that would mean that somewhere between 12,600 to 16,800 of female deportees to Guatemala likely experienced sexual abuse during their journey.
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Every year, she told me, she goes on a "patriotic mission" to Siberia with a group of young Lithuanians to interview any locals who remember the experiences of deportees.
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She climbed off the train in Verona, in the Salò Republic, and instead of joining her parents in Como, she attached herself to a convoy of Dachau-bound deportees.
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Brazil's Foreign Ministry confirmed that certificates of nationality are issued by its consulates in the United States when detained deportees have exhausted their appeals process and have no passport.
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Even businesses, which have long shied away from hiring deportees out of fear they were criminals or would be more assertive about their labor rights, are changing their attitudes.
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"I&aposm not afraid," she said between tears as she walked through the door of the air base where many of the other deportees scurried by with their faces covered.
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Just imagine a situation where tens of thousands of deportees, perhaps even hundreds of thousands, are waiting in already jammed detention centers while the legal cases and protests rage outside.
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In a poor country of just under 230,213 people, these are significant numbers, especially when considered against the resources available and the violence of the crimes some deportees committed abroad.
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It's not clear whom the president was referring to — whether he was simply picking up on Sheriff Mims's reference to MS-13 gang members or referring to deportees more broadly.
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Hassan Elian, who heads an association campaigning for Lebanese deportees from the Gulf, said about 100 had been ejected from Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE in the past two months.
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Kino has even begun assisting in job hunting for some of the deportees who have decided to stay in Nogales, Mexico, to be closer to their families in the States.
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Here in Cambodia they are known as "the deportees" (though they call themselves "Khmericans") and while all are Cambodian by blood, many returned knowing little to nothing about their homeland.
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To get around the restrictions on Canadian authorities from accompanying Warssama to Somalia, the CBSA sought to enlist a private airline willing to fly deportees to Mogadishu from neighboring countries.
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Cuong and Bui were deported with around 30 other deportees from Asian countries on a plane that dropped people off in Myanmar and Cambodia before reaching its final destination, Vietnam.
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"Unlike what's happening in the United States, this is your home," the labor secretary, Amalia García, told deportees in the audience at a recent event for the city's jobs programs.
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Thousands of chartered buses (fifty-four seats on average) and planes (which can accommodate a hundred and thirty-five) would carry deportees to the border or to their home countries.
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Vans can often be seen leaving ICE's building in central Phoenix, disappearing in the hubbub of a big city's traffic as they shuttle deportees on their way back to Mexico.
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State news agency Xinhua said Zhang explained that the Kenya deportees included fraudsters from Taiwan who had caused losses for people in China and that they "must be bought to justice".
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"The voluntary deportees, the ones who are choosing to leave the Dominican Republic on their own, are the ones who have family here and who know where to stay," Marleny says.
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In addition to the alleged physical abuse, the lawsuit said as many as 20 or 30 ICE or contract guards berated the deportees, calling them criminals and threatening to kill them.
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During a "community" meeting set up by the city's government and well-to-do residents, Zuniga said, a city official floated the idea of simply building jails to house new deportees.
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INM said the deportees had been scattered in eight states around Mexico, including in southern Mexico from where many Indian migrants enter the country, hoping to transit to the U.S. border.
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A long list of reforms resulted, including a stipulation that prospective deportees could use a phone to call a family member, a legal-service provider, or a Mexican consulate before removal.
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The lawmakers are accusing the administration of ripping apart families, traumatizing children and risking the safety of the deportees as they face a return to beleaguered parts of the world. Rep.
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All but invisible, the deportees were left to cope on their own with divided families, uncertain job prospects and the poverty that had pushed so many north in the first place.
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"Deportees are treated with immediate suspicion, simply caused by their association with America," said Daniel Smith, a human rights researcher who has been an expert witness in dozens of deportation cases.
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Seedling's solution for dissuading illegal immigration is to affix deportees with electronic collars that will stun anyone who tries to cross the Mexican-American borde—an idea barely more outlandish than Rep.
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According to the activist group Mijente, which has organized a series of petitions against Amazon, US authorities manage their immigration records with Palantir software, which enables ICE to track down potential deportees.
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The U.S. also stopped its twice-weekly flights that took deportees directly to Mexico City — which had been part of an effort to avoid dumping them in dangerous border cities like Juárez.
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In many cases, there was a "clear link" between why the group of nearly 200 deportees left El Salvador and how they were injured or killed upon their return, the report said.
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A percentage of the proceeds from these sales will be donated to help migrants and deportees from the United States who are now residing in Guanajuato, Mexico, where the attorney grew up.
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Although Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin has said he's open to discussing potential steps to ensure access to care for deportees, thus far the Trump administration hasn't taken up the issue.
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For some deportees, the call center industry, which El Salvador's investment promotion agency (PROESA) says employs 25,000 people, is not an option because their U.S. police records raise security concerns with clients.
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A few people I spoke to grew up in the care system, and this is common among deportees—perhaps unsurprisingly given the disproportionate number of care-leavers in the criminal justice system.
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In 1984, the American Civil Liberties Union submitted to the US House Subcommittee on Rules a list of 112 deportees who were either killed or suffered human rights abuses after their deportations.
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In the middle of this new surge of violence is a crush of vulnerable migrants and deportees who city officials and experts say are at risk of being targeted as victims and recruits.
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The practice was a boon to drug cartels, local drug gangs, and pimps, which targeted the deportees for kidnappings and being forced into prostitution, particularly in border towns that cater to US tourists.
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Some deportees were transported in over packed trucks or were dropped off without resources in the desert and died from heat stroke; others drowned after transport on overloaded ships, according to Ngai's book.
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ALSO READ: Kenya defends forcing 45 Taiwanese onto a plane to China Alleged fraudsters The deportees are accused by Chinese authorities of being involved in dozens of fraud cases worth upwards of $600,000.
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Takashi Takano told CNN that Ric O'Barry has been detained in a deportees' facility at the airport on Monday and that he had met with the activist in the company of immigration officials.
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The countries, per a report from The Washington Times: Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone Why it matters: Trump is following through on a campaign promise to pressure countries to take deportees back.
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Pilots from Israel's national airline, El Al, have called for a boycott of flights with deportees (a gesture activists lauded, though they then pointed out that El Al isn't actually chartering those flights).
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By pretty much any quantitative measure — arrests, deportations, the share of all deportees who had no criminal record — any year of Obama's first term saw more aggressive immigration enforcement than Trump's first year.
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After Trump's election, she began interviewing recent deportees in Reynosa about their experiences with U.S. immigration authorities, and gathered accounts of asylum seekers who'd been kidnapped or otherwise harmed after being turned away.
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Lara was among the first off a bus of dozens of fresh deportees that pulled into the La Chacra repatriation center in San Salvador, located close to gang territory, one day in April.
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On arrival at the Skirotava station in Riga, the deportees were told that they had to walk miles to the ghetto, and that those unable to make the distance could take buses instead.
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American immigration law is clear: Would-be deportees are entitled to reopen their old deportation cases if changed country conditions make deportation dangerous, because nobody should be deported to face persecution and torture.
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He explained that he had trawled through tens of thousands of names of deportees from Frankfurt on a Yad Vashem database, and had only found one name that matched the birthday — Karoline Cohn.
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The most recent instance was in October 2016 when the Obama administration stopped issuing visas to Gambian government officials and their families because the government was not taking back U.S. deportees from Gambia.
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"Transformed Life Ministry's mission is to serve male ex-prisoners and deportees, by providing safe transitional housing, developmental and rehabilitation program, to promote healthy reintegration into society," the center says on the website.
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Some deportations are simply impossible to carry out: About a quarter of the immigrants with outstanding deportation orders come from countries that refuse to take back deportees, including China, Haiti, Brazil and India.
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That compromise, passed by the Senate in May and largely supported by President George W. Bush, would have built border fencing and more jail cells for deportees, and declared English the national language.
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The Trump administration is still deporting fewer noncriminal immigrants than the Obama administration did circa 2011, and the proportion of deportees who are noncriminals is usually smaller than the proportion of arrestees who are.
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In an arrivals area, tearful reunions and conversations with social workers give a glimpse at life for the United States' most recent deportees -- and a window into who the United States is kicking out.
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While job training, mental health, and housing programs will cost the government money, they could help make deportees — many of whom have US high school degrees and job skills — productive members of Mexican society.
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Guatemala's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had also suspended flights of Guatemalan deportees from the US while it established health protocols to ensure a deportee doesn't take the virus back to their community.
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The law bore the name of its principal author, Representative Albert Johnson, one of the men who, along with Hoover, had seen off the Buford and its cargo of deportees from New York Harbor.
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These deportations will happen quietly, and chances are that even observers who are sympathetic to other deportees will be made uneasy by the dubious "history" that has given anti-Mariel prejudice its long life.
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In 2017, the Dallas News wrote that deportees "have become easy prey for violent criminal groups desperate for money," who hold them for ransom that relatives still in the US are pressured to pay.
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Thirty-five of the 37 deportees were convicted criminals who were sent back to Cambodia via a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) flight from Dallas, ICE said in a statement on its website.
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In Tijuana, a city long accustomed to a population of migrants in transit, deportees and U.S. pleasure-seekers, a clutch of local residents last week threw rocks at the migrants, telling them to go home.
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"There's a massive exodus from Connecticut," Sternlicht said, naming himself and billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones as the most high-profile recent deportees, at the CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference on Tuesday.
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One study of newspaper reports in 2014 identified at least 83 El Salvadoran deportees who were murdered shortly after arriving back in their home country, and attorneys say those numbers are almost certainly very low.
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As the case has moved forward, recent correspondence from Iraq shows its attitude toward taking deportees has not changed, according to a letter from Iraq's minister of migration and displaced, written on July 29, 2018.
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The move by right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's government aims to facilitate repatriation of deportees by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and efforts by the Trump administration to speed the removal of undocumented immigrants.
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Brazil was labeled as "at risk of non-compliance" with the repatriation of deportees in a U.S. Department of Homeland Security report in March on the barriers ICE faces to timely removal of detained immigrants.
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On Tuesday, a plane of 105 deportees, including a pregnant woman and two children, landed in Port-au-Prince, Giuseppe Loprete, chief of mission at the International Organization for Migration in Haiti, told BuzzFeed News.
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"The guards did not loosen the shackles, even when the deportees told them that the shackles were painful because they were too tight, that their arms and legs were swollen and were bruised," the complaint said.
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"Turkey should have followed international protocol, first by deporting them to their last port of embarkation and secondly by informing the country where deportees are sent to," said the source who is aware of the discussions.
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In the past, officials have insisted the small amount of assistance they provide deportees — such as free bus tickets to their state of birth or access to computers to print their birth certificates — has been adequate.
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The roundup of Iraqis in the Detroit area followed Iraq's agreement to accept deportees as part of a deal that removed the country from Trump's revised temporary travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries.
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There's nothing in the way of government support for deported Tongans, just the scattered goodwill of a couple of churches, and Sione wants to turn his family land into a place that could help his fellow deportees.
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The Human Rights Watch acknowledged that the US government is not solely responsible for the harm these migrants faced, putting blame as well on Salvadoran gangs and Salvadoran authorities who harm deportees or fail to protect them.
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As the sun rose, Laura stepped onto the bridge and into a much larger story, one that has launched a major legal battle over the U.S. government's duty to protect prospective deportees who plead for their lives.
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According to researchers from the Mexico City–based organization IIPSOCULTA, which recently released a report analyzing attention to deportees in Mexico City, the city's Benito Juárez International Airport receives three flights of deported Mexican citizens each week.
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READ: Trump is poised to bomb Somalia more in his first year than Obama did in eight The would-be deportees, now being held in detention centers in Florida, are talking about what happened during the ordeal.
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While some deportees have taken their own lives or been caught dealing drugs, the recidivism rate in Cambodia is lower than in the United States, according to Bill Herod, the founder of the Khmer Vulnerability Aid Organization.
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"We are expecting more than 40 later this month," Bill Herod, the founder of the Khmer Vulnerability Aid Organization, a Phnom Penh-based group that works to integrate Cambodian deportees into the country, said in an interview.
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Now, Mexican politicians are eagerly embracing them, portraying deportees as the embodiment of President Trump's hostility toward their country and their people — even though deportations of Mexican citizens actually fell in the opening months of his term.
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An official from Mexico's Foreign Ministry said the government would tell Kelly's team to that it was "impossible" for Mexico to accept deportees or asylum applicants from foreign countries, and would ask them to explain their plan.
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua — President Trump's executive order barring migrants families from being separated at the border was welcome news to recent deportees and those preparing to cross illegally at a shelter in Juarez just miles from the Texas border.
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Yes, these deportees were "immigration violators" — they were unauthorized immigrants (or had been unauthorized at some point in the past and hadn't disclosed it when they applied for legal status), or they'd violated the terms of their visa.
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But the shock of going from having a home, a job, and money in the United States to being destitute in Mexico takes a heavy psychological toll, as does the separation from families, particularly among deportees with children.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Greece has postponed the return of the next group of migrants to Turkey under a deal with the European Union until Friday, a Turkish government official said on Tuesday, with no other deportees expected before then.
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Nearly a third of ICE's 240,255 deportees in fiscal year 2016 were from three countries in that region -- Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador -- where experts say growing violence and economic problems have helped fuel a wave of immigration.
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But so far the message appears to have fallen on deaf ears; unchastened, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to have little trouble finding local police departments willing to join President Trump's aggressive national search for potential deportees.
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Last Friday, Congressional Democrats sent out a petition calling on the president to grant mass amnesty to over a million illegal aliens from Central America, citing the region's high crime rates and the dangers faced by potential deportees.
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Mexico said it had requested the flights to keep deportees away from dangerous border cities, while a senior DHS official said the flights were in response to rising numbers of Mexican nationals arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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VICE News traveled to Honduras, where deportees are arriving by the hundreds — as many as 250 a day — to speak with a human smuggler who has been sneaking people into the U.S. for the Gulf Cartel for years.
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A Mexican official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters, said that Pena Nieto, Videgaray and other officials will make clear to Kelly and Tillerson that Mexico will not take deportees who are not Mexican nationals.
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Chartered flights full of deportees from the United States regularly arrive in the Central American country, but Tuesday&aposs flight was among the first containing families separated at the border under President Donald Trump&aposs contentious zero-tolerance policy.
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In addition to the 138 confirmed cases of murder, the report also identified over 70 cases in which deportees were "subjected to sexual violence, torture, and other harm," or who simply went missing when they returned to the country.
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In 218, the last time the law was revised, Congress didn't include new language on gang issues, though it did make it much more difficult to get asylum — including raising the bar on allowing deportees to apply for asylum.
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After that I started paying a bit more attention to these guys who were deportees and talking to them about their experiences and how hard it is for them to come back and find a place in Tongan society.
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Cuong and at least three other deportees who had lived in America for decades were returned to Vietnam in December 19903 as part of a renewed Trump administration push to deport immigrants convicted of crimes in the United States.
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ANKARA, April 5 (Reuters) - Greece has postponed the return of the next group of migrants to Turkey under a deal with the European Union until Friday, a Turkish government official said on Tuesday, with no other deportees expected before then.
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" According to a confidential memorandum, obtained by VICE, recommendations that came out of the three-day event included the construction of a Reconnection Home "where deportees will meet any family members, service providers, and starting of reintegration program into the Society.
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The organization combed through press reports, court files and conducted interviews in an effort to monitor what happens to deportees once they return to El Salvador, a feat that no government or agency had previously done, Human Rights Watch said.
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Emails obtained through access to information reveal immigration officials repeatedly mention how difficult it is to deport someone to Liberia and the lack of cooperation from Liberian officials even when deportees have documents that have been issued by the Liberian government.
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Shulkin, a medical doctor who has made expanding access to VA services a priority for the department, said he is open to finding ways to expand the department's existing assistance for veterans living abroad, which most deportees don't have access to.
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In 2015, city officials launched an aggressive effort to clean up Zona Norte, the part of Tijuana closest to the border checkpoint and where huge camps of homeless deportees had sprung up, including in El Bordo, a miles-long sewage ditch.
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In Tallinn, Estonia - where the Vatican says there are only about 4,500 Catholics - Francis will say Mass in Freedom Square, the site of military parades in Soviet times was where thousands of candles are burned each year to commemorate Soviet deportees.
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Some have suggested that private-corrections firms, like GEO Group, would get big contracts for temporarily housing the 5003 million or more deportees Trump says he'll expel from the U.S. Trouble is, the wall is an idea without a sponsor.
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Geared at supporting the integration of deportees, the startup is prepping Mexicans to enter into a high-demand sector through an intensive five-month software development training program that gives the students qualification, even though many have started from scratch.
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Trump is pushing Vietnam to accept deportees who have lived in the US for over 20 years Inside Venezuela's YouTube prank economy How Crazy Ex-Girlfriend pulled off recasting Greg, one of its biggest characters Everyone warns of China's rise.
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The cycle is self-perpetuating: These gangs grow out of alienating socioeconomic conditions, and when their members are deported, they're forced into a similar situation in their country of origin, which creates more violence, more desperate refugees and, eventually, more deportees.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil is making it easier for the United States to deport undocumented Brazilians by asking U.S. airlines to board deportees even when they have no valid passports, following pressure from the Trump administration, three Brazilian government sources said.
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The Federal Police sent airlines a memo in June allowing them to board Brazilian deportees with just a certificate of nationality issued by a consulate if they lack a valid passport, previously needed to travel to Brazil, the sources said.
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That changed in March, when Iraq agreed to begin accepting deportees in exchange for being dropped from the list of countries affected by Mr. Trump's revised travel ban, which barred citizens of several predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
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The likely obstacles to any mass deportation effort include required congressional approval for increased spending, vows of resistance by leaders in several major cities that are home to large numbers of potential deportees and long waits for removal proceedings in US immigration court.
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A Mexican official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters ahead of Thursday's meeting, told CNN that Kelly and Tillerson would hear from Pena Nieto, Videgaray and other officials that Mexico would not take deportees who are not Mexican nationals.
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While waiting in those seemingly endless lines, I would look over to the other side of the border — where people enter Mexico — and see a line of deportees being dropped off by Border Patrol agents and walking through the gates in defeat.
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Maria Engracia Robles, a Roman Catholic nun who runs El Comedor center for deportees and migrants within sight of the border fence in Nogales, thinks Trump's victory will likely bring more hardship and worries about the challenges that mass deportations would bring.
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US law treats these groups of people very differently — deportees who reenter illegally, for example, are permanently barred from ever getting legal status in the US, while people who can claim a "credible fear" of persecution are allowed to stay and seek asylum.
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Before one deportation flight left for Honduras from Texas on Thursday, U.S. officials asked who had children in detention in the United States and the four who put up their hands were not put on the flight, deportees arriving in Honduras told Reuters.
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In one email, a CBSA officer says he was told by a UN police officer that because there was an election coming up, Liberian officials were reluctant to let people in because they didn't want deportees to change the outcome of the election.
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Though there are some government initiatives aimed at supporting deportees by providing shelter and food, this usually bilingual cohort is prone to unemployment, as well as the mental struggle assigned to the frustrations of reintegrating into a country with which many can't identify.
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What the large group does do is give "visibility to a phenomenon that had been going on for a long time and that nobody wanted to see," said César Ríos, director of the Salvadoran Migrant Institute in San Salvador, which works with deportees.
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A cornerstone of the program is a network of reception centers along the border that greet deportees with food, help them sign up for health insurance, provide access to a phone and local transportation, and give information about how to get work.
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A paper trail that documented the work done by NS existed because the company invoiced the Nazi regime for the transports to the Dutch transit camps, in Westerbork, Vught and Amersfoort, where deportees were sent before being shipped on to the death camps.
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WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States began flying Mexican deportees deep into Mexico on Thursday, and senior U.S. and Guatemalan officials said Mexicans seeking U.S. refuge might be sent to the Central American nation, in a renewed effort to slash border crossings.
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The taxi driver directed him to a boulevard nearby and told him to follow it to a soup kitchen run by the Kino Border Initiative, a nonprofit group that feeds and clothes deportees newly arrived in a country they had chosen to leave.
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As a part of that strategy, Mexican officials intend to keep arriving deportees in a central area temporarily before transporting them to their places of origin around the country in order to keep a few states or municipalities from becoming overburdened, Vigil said.
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NOGALES, ARIZONA — The US Customs and Border Protection Agency has quietly resumed late-night deportation of Mexican citizens, according to human rights activists, despite a 2016 agreement with the Mexican government that halted the controversial practice that makes deportees vulnerable to gangs and human trafficking.
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Working with intravenous drug users, the homeless community, and sex workers — many of whom come from the ranks of the more than 1 million people who have been deported to Tijuana since 1992 — makes her keenly aware of the challenges facing deportees and border communities.
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Nielsen's testimony before the House panel has touched on family separations that resulted from the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy and other cases in which deportees who were not legal U.S. residents were returned to their home countries without their U.S.-citizen children.
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Mr. Njoka said all the deportees were connected to a strange case in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, in which the authorities discovered a house full of electronics and telecommunications equipment and then arrested dozens of Chinese and Taiwanese on suspicion of cybercrimes and other illegal activities.
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The lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the case, Jennifer Chang Newell of the American Civil Liberties Union, noted to CNN that the Justice Department had asked to delay the deadlines for only one aspect of the ruling -- next steps on bringing back the deportees.
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But tie it to a surge in calls and emails to immigration lawyers from recently arrived Mexicans looking for work permits, as well as the accounts of deportees like Rita and Mexicans already in Canada, and it suggests a new migration pattern may be emerging.
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The cables, sent by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to consular officials around the world, said the four countries were "denying or unreasonably delaying" the return of their citizens, and that visa restrictions would be lifted in a country if it accepted its deportees.
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From a drop-off point — an airport, a bridge over the Rio Grande in Texas or an assigned gate in other land border crossings — deportees must figure out how to reunite with relatives there or connect with the families they may have left behind.
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He was at pains to emphasize that the safety and well-being of deportees would be ensured—a crucial detail, since the legality (and for many people, the morality) of the deportations hinged on what would happen to these men and women once they left Israel.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. immigration authorities have arrested and moved to deport 199 Iraqi immigrants, mostly from the Detroit area, in the last three weeks after Iraq agreed to accept deportees as part of a deal removing it from President Donald Trump's travel ban, officials said on Wednesday.
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California Dems tap Eric Holder to fight Trump in court Going after undocumented immigrants with criminal records could prove more difficult and would likely require congressional approval to pay for more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to round up potential deportees who do not want to be found.
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Six Michigan lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives, five Democrats and one Republican, sent a letter urging the Department of Homeland Security to hold off on the removals until Congress can review the agreement between the United States and Iraq and be given assurances about the deportees' safety.
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The agreement not only made it less likely that deportees would be kidnapped, it also allowed human rights workers operating shelters in border towns to arrange for them to be brought directly to them, where they could be fed, given clean clothing and medical assistance, and help in contacting family members.
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Most important, it must work at the highest levels with Honduras and El Salvador to address the chaos in those countries, particularly because the U.S. bears some responsibility for the problems: The Central American street gangs were born in the United States and traveled with deportees to countries like El Salvador.
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Even though ICE isn't as limited in who it can arrest now, it's still constrained by how quickly it can track down and arrest people — and unlike immigrants who have stayed under the radar, ICE can use government databases to pick out people with criminal records who are potential deportees.
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Citing counterterrorism needs and the fact that the Dominican Republic and Haiti are conduits for cocaine bound for the United States, the United States helped create and train Cesfront, the border force that most likely deported Jean in March, and has provided biometric equipment of the sort used to process immigrants and deportees.
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A city of immigrants and deportees, Tijuana has generally been welcoming to newcomers, but the influx of the caravan — authorities here expect nearly 10,000 people — has opened a passionate dispute about whether the city is prepared to handle this group and if stretched resources should be funneled to them or directed at local residents.
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In a statement issued late Tuesday, the California Democrat expressed doubts that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations are reinforced by proper legal protections for those affected, and she amplified concerns that the deportees will be returned to perilous conditions in the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
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Mexico must say clearly that we will encourage all our potential deportees to demand a hearing upon arrest and to refuse voluntary removal; that we will provide legal support, on our dime, for all arrested undocumented Mexicans; and that we will deny entry to anyone whom American authorities cannot prove is a Mexican citizen.
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According to one estimate, 20,133 criminals were sent to El Salvador from 2000 to 2004 — a considerable number for a Salvadoran government that didn't have the capacity to deal with criminal organizations and that wasn't being notified which of the deportees being returned to them were criminals, thanks to US law at the time.
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Tijuana's most influential citizens believe "all the people that are being deported are criminals because they deport people from jail, that they were gang members, and so on," she said, adding that this stigma has been fueled by US rhetoric casting deportees as violent criminals and by years of neglect of the deported by local officials.
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While it's unknown how much of the Central American strength of MS-133 was homegrown, a Congressional Research Service analysis of MS-13 found that its ranks were continuously strengthened by deportees from the US returning home, even as members also migrated to the US. As part of its heightened rhetoric against illegal immigration, the Trump administration of late has spotlighted MS-13 as a sort of public enemy No. 1.
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While it's unknown how much of the Central American strength of MS-1.43 was homegrown, a Congressional Research Service analysis of MS-13 found that its ranks were continuously strengthened by deportees from the US returning home, even as members also migrated to the US. There were roughly 24,000 MS-22009 members in Central America in 22010, according to an analysis by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
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The Mexican health system is already overloaded by its own population, Janeway said, let alone the additional immigrants, asylum-seekers, and deportees from the US. It's difficult for immigrants to access health coverage; Tijuana General Hospital always has a hard time meeting the needs of the people who show up; and there aren't enough respirators for those who may need it if the coronavirus spreads as it's expected to.
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I met with people on the streets of both Nogales-es: border patrol agents; an engineer who talked about the ethics of building Trump's wall; a white woman named Betty who lives right up against the border in Bisbee, Arizona; my friend, the artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez; The Kino Border Initiative (where I met recent deportees); the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner; and the Colibri Center for Human Rights.
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When the Obama administration mounted an effort to protect the DREAMers—who like the victims of surprise billing, couldn't be blamed for their circumstances, having been left out of their parents' decision to bring them to the United States—no amount of differentiating their innocence from that of other immigrants, such as the constantly railed-against "gang bangers" or those whose traffic violations made them worthy deportees, deterred opposition to their cause.
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We were all right next to one another — the kids going to school, the grown-ups heading to work, the poor begging for the quarters in our cupholders, the sun-stroked deportees being escorted through the metal gates, the tired moms holding their children in the pedestrian lanes, the people with disabilities holding signs asking for help, the vendors trying to make their quota to put food on the table that evening — staring up at the same border crossing.
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If the administration were to follow through on President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's stated objective to deport "millions of illegal aliens" by doubling deportations (from roughly 290,000 in Fiscal Year 2018 to 500,85033 deportees), we calculate, using the Oxford Economics Global Economic Model, that a smaller labor force would reduce real GDP growth by 0.1 percentage point in the first year.
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To be sure, most MS-13 gang members in El Salvador were not deportees — according to one 1996 survey, only 16 percent of Salvadoran gang members had been to the US, and 88 percent of them had joined the gang in El Salvador — but between the deportation of gang leaders and the cultural appeal of "thug life," the gang itself was absolutely an import from the US. As the US's gang problem became El Salvador's, the Salvadoran government responded in the same way the US had — with mass incarceration of young men — only worse.
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