James Percival, the Department of Homeland Security's top legal adviser, said in a post on X that the department has deported 25,000 people to third countries as part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. ↧ Removal of migrants to 3rd countries is an 'essential public safety... The removal of individuals illegally in the U.S. to a third country that isn't their country of origin is an "essential public safety tool," the DHS general counsel says.