US spent $40 million on roughly 300 deportations to third nations, Democratic report finds

The Trump administration spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own, according to a report compiled by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was part of President Donald Trump's goal to quickly remove migrants by expanding the practice of third country deportations. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations committee, criticizes the practice of third country deportations as “costly, inefficient and poorly monitored." The Department of State has stood behind the practice of third country deportations and defended it as a part of Trump’s campaign to end illegal immigration.