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Trump’s third-country deportations cost $133K per person

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 13, 2026
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Donald Trump, president of the USA during World Economic Forum 2026. (UkrPictures/shutterstock.com)

The Trump administration paid Palau — a Pacific island nation of 18,000 people — between $4.7 million and $7.5 million to accept deportees. So far, it has sent zero.

That’s one detail from a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, which tallied at least …

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