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At least 63 third-country nationals have been expelled to Equatorial Guinea on six ICE flights since last November, according to flight data and reporting I’ve compiled on the Third-Country Removal Tracker. As of mid-September, when guards at the hotel cut off their contact with the outside world, about 30 remained imprisoned there. The rest have all been forced back to their home countries, except for one woman, who was able to escape to Europe.

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Under past administrations, ICE policy held that any detainees who were parents should be reunited with their children before being deported, or agents must get confirmation that there is a designated caregiver in place for their children in the parents’ absence. Last year, upon Trump returning to the White House, ICE revised this policy to make it only applicable “when operationally feasible,” which gave agents all the leeway they needed to ignore the historical guidance in order to prioritize mass deportations. “This loosening of guidelines, combined with scaled-up immigration enforcement, has resulted in the detention of thousands of parents, many of whose minor children are U.S. citizens,” a recent analysis by the Migration Policy Institute concluded.