Third-Country Deportation Policy & News

The Third-Country Deportation Policy tag examines U.S. agreements that allow migrants to be removed to nations other than their country of origin.

Reporting includes diplomatic negotiations, financial arrangements, oversight findings from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and legal challenges surrounding due process and protection orders.

JRL CHARTS analyzes how these agreements intersect with constitutional protections, refugee law, and humanitarian standards impacting LGBTQ asylum seekers and other vulnerable populations.

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U.S. Deports Gay Asylum-Seeker to Country Where Homosexuality Is Criminalized Despite Protection Order

By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics News Source Credit: Reporting based on coverage by the Associated Press (AP) LAS VEGAS — (February 24, 2026) — A 21-year-old gay woman who fled Morocco after alleged violent persecution says she has been returned to her homeland following a controversial third-country deportation process — despite receiving a [...]