Until April of this year, Iraq had not accepted deportees from the United States since 2010. That policy changed when one of President Donald Trump's early executive orders included Iraq on a list of seven countries targeted with a temporary travel ban. As part of the deal to be removed from the list, Iraq agreed to begin taking deportees again.
More than 1,400 Iraqis in America are on the docket to be returned to their country of origin.
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