Tiny Pacific Island Strikes Lucrative Deal to House U.S. Deportees

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Dec 27th, 2025, 12:49 pm


The small Pacific Island nation of Palau struck a $7.5 million deal with President Donald Trump’s administration in exchange for taking in up to 75 deportees from the U.S. A “memo of understanding” was signed on Wednesday following a call between Palau President Surangel S. Whipps, Jr. and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau to discuss the details of the agreement and “the challenges both nations face and how they are working together,” according to a statement from Whipps’s office.

“The discussion included several new initiatives that help both our nations move forward,” the statement said. “Palau welcomed U.S. commitments that deepen a long standing partnership and deliver concrete benefits for Palauan people in health care, security, pensions, disaster resilience, and labor. Together, Palau and the United States also reaffirmed a shared commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific that protects both nations’ prosperity and security.”

This statement affirms that “75 third country nationals, who have never been charged with a crime” can live and work in Palau, which has an estimated population of 17,700, to help address local labor shortages. A $7.5 million grant from the U.S. in exchange will allow Palau to meet “related public service and infrastructure needs, while both countries continue close cooperation on immigration and security matters.”

The island nation’s new role in accepting third country nationals comes amid a large push by the Trump administration to crack down on illegal immigration and increase deportation numbers.

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[SunSeeker]

1. "Palau and the United States also reaffirmed a shared commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific"

Yeah, nothing says "free" like forced confinement on a remote island.

[2na fisherman]

2. Whipps And Chains

Palau will never see a dime of that money. So its President is willing to turn his country into a penal colony for a phony promise by Trump.

[NJCher]

4. can't find that he's stiffed anybody on this

I did a search.

My opinion: He's paying them with the money that would have gone to cover insurance subsidies under ACA. Yes, that is where our tax money is going instead of to the needs of our fellow citizens.

[IronLionZion]

5. He's giving our tax dollars to other countries because America First

I'm sure they found some money from screwing Americans out of healthcare subsidies, food assistance, education assistance, and other social programs.

[PatrickforB]

3. Hmm. Shades if Reinhardt Heydrich talking about how the Nazis first planned to give the Jews

Madigascar. How enlightened of them!

If sanity ever is regained here in Murika, we'd better sure as hell have some CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY trials. Because these Nazi fucks in Trump's administration and the GOP, and now the new SS-ICE, are in fact committing crimes agains humanity.

And what about the fucking Epstein files? When the hell are we going to get some justice for all these children whose lives have been ruined by these billionaire fucks?

These are people you wouldn't even let in your house because they would steal whatever is not nailed down and commit horrible crimes against the kids and grandkids. We're going to have to FUMIGATE the White House after these pieces of excrement are kicked out.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. "we'd better sure as hell have some CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY trials."

That will probably never happen because like clockwork, each GOP regime manages to cause some kind of economic calamity so bad that the incoming Democratic administration has to spend all of their time and resources on fixing that, and when that is FINALLY resolved, it's time for the next election.

[Cherokee100]

7. Can we say

Can we say 'slave labor'?