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Trump’s Border Czar Searching for Third-Party Nations to Take Migrants

Civil and immigration rights organizations have decried the method.

Donald Trump’s newest border czar says he is beginning talks with other nations in hopes to find a country that is willing to provide refuge for displaced migrants whose home nations won’t take them back. Tom Homan revealed that he is getting the ball rolling before Inauguration Day for the president-elect’s mass deportation plan, according to the The Daily Mail. “I’m not waiting for Jan. 20,” Homan said, according to the outlet. “We are already having discussions. So we’ll find a third country.” During Trump’s first term, in 2019, migrants were sent to Guatemala after that nation struck an agreement to take people in. Those seeking asylum were put on planes without knowing the destination, according to NBC News. Civil and immigration rights organizations have decried the method, and quickly sued the Trump Administration over the policy. Previous reporting hinted at countries like Turks and Caicos, Panama and Grenada as possible spots for the second Trump Administration might use.