Investigations correspondent Louisa Loveluck reports on the Trump administration’s secret deportation deals, sending thousands of migrants to ‘third countries’ across the world

A Sierra Leonean nurse detained, handcuffed and flown to Ghana. An Iranian dissident to Central African Republic. A Cameroonian to Equatorial Guinea.

This is the face of the Trump administration’s deportations policy since 2025 – striking deals with 35 countries, and sending up to 25,000 migrants in the US across the world, often to places they have no connection to at all.