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ICE and Iran Secretly Coordinated Deportation Flights

ICE and Iran Secretly Coordinated Deportation Flights

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Sharing confidential asylum claim data with the Iranian government is both illegal and dangerous — political dissidents could face torture or death because of it. Coordinating deportation flights with a regime the U.S. is effectively at war with is a stunning betrayal of people who fled for their lives. This isn't tough immigration policy; it's putting vulnerable people directly in harm's way.

Getting results on deportations means forcing even hostile regimes to take back their own nationals, and that's exactly what happened here. Diplomatic comfort should never outrank actual enforcement — when the policy is firm, even Iran has to comply. Prioritizing outcomes over optics is what real immigration enforcement looks like.


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