The Guardian's deported-nurse film jumps twenty-fold at five days
An investigation into Trump's third-country removals, made with Forbidden Stories and voiced by actors, drew most of its views in a single day.
The GuardianStory of Why this story? The video is running at 78,762 views a day, 20 times its usual pace (3,882).
The victims of Trump's third country deportation policy
The Guardian's film "The victims of Trump's third country deportation policy" spent its first few days moving at an unhurried pace. Then, at five days old, it took off, running at about twenty times its own usual rate. Most of the views it has collected arrived in that one day.
At its center is Rabbiatu Kuyateh, a nurse who fled Sierra Leone and spent most of her life in the US, where she cared for Covid patients and looked after disabled adults and children. Her son, Mohamed, went with her to what her immigration status made a routine ICE check-in. It was the last time he saw her before she was deported to Ghana, a country that is not her own. Her interview was recorded as audio only, so actors play mother and son on screen.
She is one of more than 25,000 people the description says the administration has deported to countries other than their own. The film grew out of the Deportation Project, a joint investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, the Paris-based network of journalists that carries on the work of reporters who have been threatened or killed.
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- Channel
- The Guardian
- Subscribers
- 2,630,000
- Video published
- September 24, 2026
- Video views so far
- 96,319 (5 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 78,762 (on a normal day: 11,370)
The numbers
The figures show how sharply a five-day-old investigation broke from its own quiet start.
