The US has deported more than 21,000 people to countries its own state department deems too dangerous to visit, including war zones and states run by harsh dictatorships, since President 
Donald Trump's inauguration. The figure comes from a Marshall Project analysis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data running through mid-March, the Guardian reported. The overwhelming majority of those deported had no criminal convictions, and at least 600 were children.
Where were people sent? The destinations included Ukraine, Haiti and Myanmar — places where the state department warns travellers of terrorism, wrongful detention and kidnapping, the Guardian reported. Around the time the administration was weighing airstrikes on Iran in late January, officials deported 18 people there, the last arriving days before the bombing began. In the 13 months before the war, the US sent more than 200 people to Iran, even as the state department condemned its rights abuses and warned Americans not to travel there "for any reason."
What do critics say? Susan Akram, a law professor at Boston University, called the deportations "immoral and totally inhumane" and said they violate US and international law, including the 1980 Refugee Act's bar on returning asylum seekers to danger. ICE did not respond to questions about how it sends people to countries it classifies as unsafe.
How does the other side respond? Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge now at the Center for Immigration Studies, said anyone deported to those countries would have had multiple chances to contest removal under US law. If they were sent back, he said, it was because they did not fight removal or a "rather robust due process system" found the destination was not unsafe.
Figures referenced: Donald Trump. — JudgeMarket.
