Trump is paying 10s of millions to 5 countries to take small numbers of deportees

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Countries Trump would call "shitholes" raking in the dough

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/politics/trump-admin-spending-deporting-migrants-report



The report, released Friday, says that the administration has inked the high-cost deals for the return of “relatively small numbers of third country nationals.”

Deals with five governments – Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, El Salvador, Eswatini, and Palau – have cost more than $32 million, with much of that funding being provided “as lump sum payments, often before any third country nationals arrived,” according to the report.

The five countries that received the million-dollar payments have collectively only received about 300 third country nationals from the US.

The report notes that the administration often uses high-cost military aircraft to deport migrants, even for flights with only a small number of people.

“The Trump Administration spent an estimated more than $7.2 million on third country deportation flights as of January 2026 to at least ten countries, with actual costs likely far higher,” the report states.