Emails Show ICE and Iran Worked Together on Deportations
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Newly discovered emails reveal that ICE, the US immigration agency, quietly worked with the Iranian government to arrange the deportation of Iranians back to Iran.
ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This agency is responsible for finding and removing people who are living in the US without legal permission.
The emails show that this cooperation was happening at the same time President Trump was reportedly making plans related to a possible war with Iran, making the quiet partnership especially notable.
According to the reports, ICE handed over specific names of Iranians to the Iranian government at Iran's request. Iran's government is often described as a regime, a term used for a strict or controlling government.
More than 100 Iranians are reported to have been part of these deportation plans, which involved setting up special flights between 2025 and 2026 to send them back to Iran.
The word deportation refers to the legal process of sending someone back to their home country, usually because they do not have permission to stay.
This kind of cooperation between the US and Iran is considered unusual, since the two countries have had a tense and distant relationship for many years.
The information became public after emails were reviewed by journalists, giving new details about how the deportation flights were quietly arranged behind the scenes.
Vocabulary10 words
- ICE
- the US agency that finds and removes people without legal permission to stay
- regime
- a government, especially one seen as strict or controlling
- deportation
- sending someone back to their home country by law
- cooperation
- two sides working together toward the same goal
- quietly
- done secretly, without public attention
- specific
- particular or exact, not general
- request
- asking officially for something
- tense
- difficult and full of worry between two sides
- reportedly
- said to be true, according to reports
- flights
- planned airplane trips
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1. They quietly cooperated on deporting Iranians to Iran 2. More than 100 3. Trump was making plans related to a possible war with Iran
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Newly discovered emails reveal that ICE, the US immigration agency, quietly worked with the Iranian _____ to arrange the deportation of Iranians back to Iran.
ICE stands for Immigration and Customs _____. This agency is responsible for finding and removing people who are living in the US without legal permission.
The emails show that this cooperation was happening at the same time President Trump was reportedly making plans related to a possible _____ with Iran.
According to the reports, ICE handed over _____ names of Iranians to the Iranian government at Iran's _____.
More than _____ Iranians are reported to have been part of these deportation plans, which involved setting up special _____ between 2025 and 2026.
This kind of _____ between the US and Iran is considered unusual, since the two countries have had a _____ relationship for many years.
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