# Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals

https://mins.news/en/item/66812

- The Guardian, 2026-09-21 05:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/21/trump-deportation-deals

> A Guardian investigation finds that the Trump administration has deported thousands of people to countries with which they have no connection through opaque agreements with governments worldwide. Nika, an Iranian woman, was shackled and flown to the Central African Republic, where she fears being returned to Iran. Human rights lawyers call the policy a coercive “show of force.”

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