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Liz Wolfe

EXPLAINED: Where deportees are being held | Vintage Vibes

Now that they've been deported, where do they go? There were 109 deportation flights in January, 65 before the inauguration of President Donald Trump and 44 after. The Department of Homeland Security posted publicly that agents had arrested almost 9,000 people between the start of the Trump administration and February 3.

Meanwhile, Trump is apparently angry that deportation numbers aren't higher and that his preferred targets—between 1,200 and 1,400 arrests of illegal immigrants per day—are not yet being met.

So where are people going when they're sent "back home" if "back home"—China, Iran, Afghanistan, for example—won't take them?

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