Third Country Deportation Watch

Monitoring the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third country transfer agreements.

Deportation Data Project

The Deportation Data Project obtains, posts, and analyzes internal U.S. government immigration enforcement data via public records litigation.

“You Have Arrived in Hell”

The 81-page report, “‘You Have Arrived in Hell’: Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison,” provides a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Salvador. In March and April 2025, the US government sent 252 Venezuelans, including dozens of asylum seekers, to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, CECOT) mega prison in El Salvador, despite credible reports of serious human rights abuses in El Salvador’s prisons. The Venezuelans were subject to refoulement—being sent to where they would face torture or persecution—arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, inhumane detention conditions and, in some cases, sexual violence.

Inside CECOT

"Inside CECOT" is a segment that was originally intended to be broadcast on the December 21, 2025, episode of 60 Minutes, a television news magazine from CBS News. Presented by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, the segment discusses the experiences of detainees at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum security prison in El Salvador used to confine Venezuelan migrants who had been deported from the US by the Trump administration in early 2025. The segment, which contains interviews with former detainees and photographic evidence detailing systematic torture at the facility, independently corroborates earlier conclusions made by Human Rights Watch. Reports by former detainees and journalists have described "El Salvador's CECOT" as a "living nightmare" and "hellscape" due to the extremely harsh conditions and high-tech surveillance present in the facility.

Lawyers see imminent decision in third-country deportation case

The forthcoming ruling could reshape the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program.

Deportation Data Project

The Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley and UCLA uses public records litigation to obtain, post and analyze U.S. government immigration enforcement data.

EXCLUSIVE: Equatorial Guinea police pull guns on migrants deported by Trump, witnesses say

The incident has intensified concerns about the treatment and safety of people sent to the Central African nation under a U.S. deportation programme.

“Llegaron al infierno”

El informe de 90 páginas, titulado “‘Llegaron al infierno’: Tortura y otros abusos contra venezolanos en el Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo de El Salvador”, ofrece un análisis exhaustivo del trato que recibieron estas personas en El Salvador. En marzo y abril de 2025, el gobierno de Estados Unidos envió a 252 venezolanos, entre ellos, decenas de solicitantes de asilo, al Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) en El Salvador, a pesar de informes creíbles sobre graves violaciones de derechos humanos en las prisiones salvadoreñas. Los venezolanos fueron objeto de devolución— el envío de personas a un lugar donde corren peligro de sufrir tortura o persecución—, detención arbitraria, desaparición forzada, tortura, condiciones de detención inhumanas y, en algunos casos, violencia sexual.

Tracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country Removals

Trump's ICE has expelled an estimated 23,000 people to countries where they have no ties. Find out where they are going, what happens to them, and who profits.

ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice

Every year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subjects hundreds of thousands of people to civil immigration detention—a practice that is unjust, inhumane, and completely unnecessary. It does so under a veil of secrecy, sharing only limited, often error-prone statistics with the public. ICE’s failure to regularly release accurate, complete, and accessible data to the public enables it to operate its multi-billion-dollar detention network with impunity and little oversight.

Global: Risk Profiling Systems Used to Identify Potential Offenders Breach International Law and Must Be Banned – New Report

Widespread risk profiling by law enforcement, social security and migration is incompatible with international human rights law and must be banned.

Usted puede ser un terrorista hoy | Columna

Cómo hace un colectivo italiano que aloja blogs de movimientos civiles para entrar en la selecta lista del terrorismo internacional según el Gobierno de Estados Unidos

The propaganda loop

From A.I. to immigrant detention, propaganda is everywhere.

Ceuta grapples with aftermath of border surge after most migrants leave the Spanish territory

Ceuta is grappling with the aftermath of a massive migrant surge. Over the weekend, most of the 60,000 migrants who entered the Spanish exclave returned to Morocco, but the crisis has reignited Europe's immigration debate.