Who’s Doing What — and Where Nobody Is
Mapping the fragmented landscape of third-country deportation tracking, legal response, advocacy, and humanitarian action. The deportation pipeline runs from San Diego courthouses to 26+ destination countries. Existing organizations cover fragments. No entity connects the full chain.
Community / Courthouse
Arrests at courthouses, homes, workplaces. San Diego origin point. People disappear from Schwartz Federal Building hallways.
Detention / Transfer
Otay Mesa → staging facilities → Alexandria, LA hub. 7,362 domestic shuffle flights since Jan 2025. People held incommunicado.
Deportation Flight
Military & charter aircraft. Shackled at wrists, waist, ankles. 30-40 hour flights. Deportees don’t know destination until airborne.
Third-Country Arrival
26+ destination countries. Immediate arbitrary detention. No reception infrastructure. Coerced “voluntary” return. 47 agreements in progress.
Onward / Refoulement
Chain-refoulement to country of origin. 80%+ already returned home. No monitoring. Press suppressed. Protection orders void in practice.
ICE Flight Monitor (Human Rights First)
Third Country Deportation Watch (HRF + RI)
Senate SFRC Minority Report
USCRI Tracker
Justice in Motion — Defender Network
Post-Deportation Human Rights Project (BC)
AFSC — Crossing South / San Diego
Casa del Migrante / Scalabrinians
UNHCR / IOM (at destinations)
Novo Legal Group / Destination Lawyers
AP / NYT / BBC Investigations
CPJ / RSF
No DRM Framework
Every existing org uses legal, advocacy, or human rights frameworks. Nobody applies disaster risk management — early warning, anticipatory action, multi-hazard analysis, resilience capacities — to the deportation system. The DRM lens is absent from this space entirely.
No Origin-to-Destination Link
ICE Flight Monitor tracks planes. Justice in Motion follows cases in Latin America. HRW documents post-arrival. Nobody has built the integrated system connecting community-level enforcement detection → detention tracking → destination response.
No Humanitarian Needs Assessment
47 agreements in progress, 26+ active destinations. No entity has conducted or proposed a systematic rapid needs assessment across deportation destinations — the kind OCHA or ACAPS would deploy for a natural disaster.
No Resilience / Social Capital Analysis
Nobody is using bonding/bridging/linking capital, absorptive/adaptive/transformative capacity, or peacebuilding-resilience nexus frameworks. The academic DRM contribution is entirely unoccupied.
No Africa/Pacific Coverage
Justice in Motion covers MX, GT, ES, HN, NI. No equivalent network exists for Cameroon, Rwanda, South Sudan, Eswatini, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Palau, Uzbekistan, or the dozens of new destinations being negotiated.
Info Flow Suppression Unaddressed
Cameroon arrested journalists + confiscated equipment. Governments deny deportees are on flights. U.S. officials told “not to follow up.” No framework addresses this information suppression as a protection hazard.
San Diego Origin — Early Warning & Anticipatory Action
Community-based enforcement detection at courthouses, homes, workplaces. Anticipatory legal intervention. 26 successful habeas petitions as proof of concept. Communication restoration for families.
Detention Interior — Pipeline Tracking & Legal Intercept
Integrated tracking connecting arrest → detention → transfer → flight. Pre-positioned legal teams for emergency challenges. 6-hour ICE Lyons memo notice window. Connect data from Flight Monitor to legal response.
Destinations — Response, Recovery, Resilience
Rapid needs assessment across ALL destinations (not just Latin America). Reception capacity. Documentation support. Livelihood/reintegration. Advocacy against refoulement. Expand JiM model to Africa/Pacific.
| Community / Courthouse | Detention / Transfer | Deportation Flight | Third-Country Arrival | Onward / Refoulement | DRM Framework | Africa / Pacific | Info Suppression | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICE Flight Monitor | — | ◐ | ● | — | — | — | ◐ | — |
| 3rd Country Deport. Watch | — | — | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | — | ● | — |
| Senate SFRC Report | — | — | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | — | ● | ◐ |
| Justice in Motion | — | — | — | ◐ | ◐ | — | — | — |
| AFSC (Crossing South / SD) | ● | — | — | ◐ | — | — | — | — |
| UNHCR / IOM | — | — | — | ◐ | — | — | ◐ | — |
| AP / NYT / BBC | — | ◐ | ◐ | ● | ◐ | — | ● | — |
| CPJ / RSF | — | — | — | ◐ | — | — | ● | ● |
| TPRN (Proposed) | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
● = PRIMARY COVERAGE ◐ = PARTIAL / SECONDARY — = NO COVERAGE ● = TPRN FILLS