A World Turning Against Migrants
Venezuelan migrants board a plane heading back to their home country from Harlingen, Texas.(FILE Photo | AP)
By Andonea Jon Dickson,Thom Tyerman | The Conversation
Under President Donald Trump, the United States is expanding its efforts to detain and deport non-citizens at an alarming rate. In recent months, the Trump administration made deals with a number of third states to receive deported non-citizens.
In Australia, the Labor government has similarly established new powers to deport non-citizens to third states. The government signed a secretive deal with Nauru in September, guaranteeing the small Micronesian island A$2.5 billion over the next three decades to accommodate the first cohort of deportees.
In both countries, migrants can now be banished to states to which they have no prior connection.
Last year in the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour party promised that the previous Conservative government's plan to deport people to Rwanda was“dead and buried”. Yet, Labour removed close to 35,000 people in 2024, an increase of 25% over the previous year.
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