During the White House Cabinet meeting today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided a big update on ongoing efforts to tackle the immigration crisis in our nation.
Twenty countries around the world have now agreed to allow the U.S. to deport illegal aliens there — even if the immigrant isn’t from that country, originally.
Brilliantly, the DHS is using these agreements in order to speed up deportation cases by getting many illegal aliens to agree to go back to their home countries rather than trying to fight the system.
For instance, under the threat of being deported to a third-world country in Africa, an illegal alien from Mexico will suddenly cave and beg to go back home instead!
Funny how that works, isn’t it?
Rubio explained further in this clip:
🚨 WOW! Marco Rubio reveals the US has now secured deportation agreements with 20 third-party countries to deport our illegals to
And DHS is using that as LEVERAGE to get illegals to stop putting up fights to go back to their home countries
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— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 27, 2026
WOW! Marco Rubio reveals the US has now secured deportation agreements with 20 third-party countries to deport our illegals to
And DHS is using that as LEVERAGE to get illegals to stop putting up fights to go back to their home countries
If you tell them they’re going to Cameroon, for example, they’ll give up and say “just send me home to El Salvador instead” 😆
“We’ve gotten 20 countries now around the world who have signed agreements that allow us to deport people to those places.”
“What often happens when you go to the person who’s here unlawfully and say, ‘we’re going to send you to this third country’ is all of a sudden they decide they’d rather go back to their home country instead.”
What a genius tactic!
At this time, the Trump administration has not released an official list of the twenty countries that Rubio is referring to.
We also don’t know how many illegal immigrants have actually been sent to countries that they are not originally from.
But, NBC News provided some estimates on how many illegal aliens have been deported to third-party countries last year:
DHS declined to comment on how many people it has sent to third countries. The Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, estimates there were 15,000 third-country deportations from Jan. 20, 2025, to Dec. 31, with 13,000 of the people being sent to Mexico.
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