The United States Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to resume the program of deporting immigrants to third countries other than their homeland, without first giving them the opportunity to appeal on the grounds of possible human rights violations.
The administration introduced this practice in 2025 as part of its policy of tightening immigration control.
The United States sometimes encounters difficulties in deporting immigrants to their home countries when the authorities of those states refuse to accept them. The Trump administration considers deporting immigrants to third countries to be one of the options for solving the problem, even if they have no connection to the given country. According to published estimates, about 25,000 immigrants have already been deported under this program.
This policy has been sharply criticized by human rights defenders and Trump’s political opponents. At the same time, more than 30 countries have agreed to accept migrants deported from the United States, among them a number of Latin American countries, such as Costa Rica, Panama and Paraguay.
Deportation agreements are also being discussed or concluded with a number of African countries.
Trump had previously stated that before he took office about 25 million people were illegally present in the United States. He has repeatedly spoken in favor of a stricter immigration policy.
Immediately after taking office, Trump signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency on the United States-Mexico border.
The President of the United States has also stated that he intends to carry out the largest deportation operation of illegal immigrants in the country’s history. According to data from the United States Department of Homeland Security, more than 622,000 illegal immigrants have been deported from the country since 2025.
At the same time, more than 2 million immigrants have left the United States since the beginning of the year, among them people who applied for so-called self-deportation through a mobile application.
