Two Cuban men deported from the United States find themselves stranded in the Central African Republic, thousands of miles from their families and with no ties to the country. Their journey reveals the human consequences of the Trump administration’s expanding use of third-country deportations, a policy that is sending immigrants to unfamiliar nations when returning them to their countries of origin is not possible.
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After nearly two decades in the United States, Farah Larrieux is among hundreds of thousands of Haitians losing Temporary Protected Status. As the threat of deportation looms, she has become afraid to leave her South Florida home and is preparing for the possibility of being detained by ICE.
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Each summer, massive amounts of sargassum wash ashore along Atlantic and Caribbean coastlines, blanketing beaches and creating challenges for coastal communities. As beach towns adapt to the annual influx, scientists warn that increasingly large blooms could pose growing economic concerns.
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