Marco Rubio just deported 25,000 illegal aliens that Joe Biden's judges spent years protecting.
Now the Washington Post has confirmed it in their own pages.
And what their reporters buried in paragraph 107 will make you furious they tried to hide it.
Rubio Built a Network Biden's Judges Could Not Touch
Rubio's State Department quietly assembled agreements with 31 countries – Ghana, Eswatini, Mexico, Sierra Leone, the Dominican Republic, and more – to accept deportable migrants that America's own courts or hostile home countries had shielded from removal.
Countries like China, Vietnam, Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, Ecuador, and Egypt have long played this game.
They simply refuse to accept their own nationals back after those nationals serve prison sentences in the United States.
For years, that was checkmate.
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Biden's team treated it as unsolvable and did nothing.
Rubio called it a problem with a solution, and he spent the last year building one.
The legal mechanism is federal law's "Safe Third Country" provision – a tool that existed for decades and was never seriously used until now.
If a third country agrees to accept a deportee, you don't need the home country's cooperation at all.
Deputy Secretary Chris Landau negotiated the deals.
Stephen Miller backed them up.
$410 million was authorized or pledged to make 31 countries willing partners – money that buys America the ability to enforce its own laws against people the courts had tried to protect indefinitely.
The Media Coordination That Tried to Stop It
The Washington Post story did not arrive alone.
It was the flagship piece of something called The Deportation Project – a six-month, 26-outlet media campaign operating across 15 countries, coordinated by a Paris-based nonprofit called Forbidden Stories.
Forbidden Stories has collected over $1.5 million from the Ford Foundation – the same foundation that has bankrolled open-borders advocacy for decades.
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The MacArthur Foundation – another left-wing donor machine that pledged to increase its giving in response to Trump's federal agenda – also funds Forbidden Stories.
Jeff Bezos owns Amazon and the Washington Post.
This is a coordinated international operation, financed by the same donor class that spent four years funding the migration pipeline Rubio is dismantling.
And the best expert quote supporting the enforcement policy – from Mark Krikorian at the Center for Immigration Studies – got buried in paragraph 107.
"This is a way to remove people who should be removed," Krikorian said. "The country of citizenship is responsible for their own citizens."
What Rubio Just Proved
This matters beyond the 25,000 number.
Biden's judges blocked deportations to specific home countries – and hostile governments simply refused to accept returning flights, leaving criminal aliens in American communities with no end date.
Rubio cracked both problems with one move: court orders blocking removal to a specific country don't touch the separate federal authority to deport to a Safe Third Country.
Two years from now, that network will be larger.
The countries that declined in 2025 watched 31 others say yes and collect American investment dollars.
That math changes minds.
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The Post buried the actual news – a massive enforcement win for Trump – under a pile of activist framing, including a sympathetic account of an Iranian woman who said she "had imagined the US as a place of sanctuary."
Meanwhile, State Department bureaucrats were, by the Post's own account, passing links to deportation news stories on encrypted apps with warnings that reading them would make colleagues feel awful.
Those are the people who ran American immigration policy under Biden.
Their feelings about enforcement are the whole story.
Sources:
- Neil Munro, "Rubio's State Dept. Deports 25,000 Migrants," Breitbart, September 23, 2026.
- Ford Foundation Grants Database, "Forbidden Stories," Ford Foundation, May 2025.
- Mark Krikorian, "Third-Country Removals and the Law," Center for Immigration Studies, 2026.