内容摘要：If South Sudan is the confirmed destination, that means people from Vietnam, Mexico and elsewhere are being sent to a nation they have no link to, thousands of miles from where they want to be. Vietnam’s list of its embassies in Africa shows the closest one to South Sudan is in Tanzania, over 800 miles away.

If South Sudan is the confirmed destination, that means people from Vietnam, Mexico and elsewhere are being sent to a nation they have no link to, thousands of miles from where they want to be. Vietnam’s list of its embassies in Africa shows the closest one to South Sudan is in Tanzania, over 800 miles away.

in an orchestrated sweep between local and federal officials.Texas, where Republican Gov.

has also allied himself with Trump on immigration, comes in second. Other states topping the list are Georgia and North Carolina.A majority of the agreements are with sheriff’s departments, a reflection of the fact that they are largely responsible for running jails in America.But other agencies have also signed the agreements including the Florida and Texas National Guard, the Florida Department of Lottery Services and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The expansion of agreements “has been unprecedented in terms of the speed and the breath,” said Amien Kacou, attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida.“ICE under the Trump administration has made a push in every state essentially to have them cooperate,” Kacou said.

Immigrants, and their attorneys and advocates say these agreements can lead to racial profiling and there’s not enough oversight.

“If you are an immigrant, or if you sound like an immigrant or you look like an immigrant, you are likely to be detained here in Florida,” said Felipe Sousa-Lazaballet, executive director at Hope Community Center in Apopka, central Florida.Pavlo Romanovskyi, chief of a Ukrainian drone laboratory who lost a leg in battle, stands in an FPV drone storage area in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

“From the first moment (when the injury happened), comrades told me: ‘“We are waiting for you to come back.’”Pozniak, 50, serves as a commander of a sniper unit within the 27th Brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard.

His left leg was amputated after he stepped on a mine in November 2022 during a counteroffensive in the Donetsk region. He returned to the military in December of 2023.Serhii Pozniak, a commander with a Ukrainian sniper unit who lost a leg after stepping on a mine, carries his rifle during training near Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)