Banished: the secret Trump deals sending migrants across the world
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Banished: the secret Trump deals sending migrants across the world

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202630 min

Investigations correspondent Louisa Loveluck reports on the Trump administration’s secret deportation deals, sending thousands of migrants to ‘third countries’ across the world. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is The Guardian. Today, the immigrants sent by the Trump administration to random countries across the world. I've been reporting every year,

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see the immigration involved in mine. This is Rabiatou Kouté, a nurse from Sierra Leone. She had been living in the United States for over three decades after she said

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she was forced to flee from political persecution in her home country. They will ask if my address is current. Earlier this year, she went with her son, Muhammad,

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