The Washington Post published on 21 September 2026 an exclusive analysis titled "How Trump Turned a Refugee Bureau into a $410 Million Deportation Operation" by David Nakamura and Adam Taylor.
The State Department's new Office of Remigration reverses a long-standing policy of resettling refugees in the United States to a focus on expelling them. The State Department implements the policy by bribing governments in Africa and Latin America to accept the deportees.
The United States has suspended accepting almost all refugees except for White South Africans. So far, the Trump administration has deported under this program more than 25,000 people, most of them to Mexico and the others to Africa and Latin America. This is a tiny percentage of the 985,000 deportations conducted by the Department of Homeland Security during Trump's second term.
