In early September, the New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman received a video call from a group of eleven people who had been forcibly deported from the United States and flown to a secret detention camp in the forests of Ghana. In this week’s issue, Stillman, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and many other awards, reveals how the Trump Administration has been deporting scores of people, including some who had lived here for decades and others who have no criminal records, to countries where they have no known connection––to Uzbekistan, South Sudan, Panama, Ghana, and the small African nation of Eswatini. Many of the public raids, traffic stops, and aggressive arrests being carried out by federal immigration agents across the U.S. have produced horrifying images and have sparked opposition to the Administration’s policies.
Author: David Remnick
Published at: 2025-11-24 23:00:00
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