Turning the US Refugee Program on Its Head

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.  

Conflict in Sudan Causes Returnee Crisis in South Sudan

 Refugees International published on 27 July 2023 a report titled "Return to a Displaced Nation: Sudan Crisis and South Sudan's Returnees" by Daniel P. Sullivan and Abdullahi Boru Halakhe.

The conflict in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has resulted in the return to South Sudan of 170,000 persons who had fled earlier violence in their country.  The situation has created a mass, uncoordinated, and unplanned repatriation movement for South Sudan.