President Donald Trump’s first year has been marked by an “unprecedented” attack on migrants in the United States, with a heavy-handed policy that combined record arrests, increasingly violent tactics, restrictions on legal migration and heavy use of executive action, the humanitarian and economic consequences of which, experts warn, will be felt for years to come.<\/p>\n
Last year, a total of 622,000 citizens were deported since the beginning of the current term, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n
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While this is a high figure, it falls short of the 778,000 repatriations in the last full fiscal year of Joe Biden’s administration and far short of the Republican pledge of one million annual repatriations.<\/p>\n
To boost the numbers, the Administration resorted to measures that have been harshly criticized and challenged in the courts, such as the expulsion of migrants to third countries.<\/p>\n
In the first year, hundreds of people were sent to at least 14 countries other than their country of origin, including Cameroon, El Salvador, Poland, Rwanda and South Sudan.<\/p>\n
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\nPass it on. <\/p>\nAgents brutally detain U.S. citizen community volunteer-kneel on his head & neck.<\/p>\n
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