Hamed Aleaziz | The New York Times

The Trump administration sent five migrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to a small African nation Tuesday, resuming so-called third-country deportations after the Supreme Court cleared the practice earlier this month, Department of Homeland Security officials said Tuesday.

The Trump administration ended protections Monday for migrants from Honduras and Nicaragua that shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work, its latest effort to strip privileges from migrants since President Donald Trump returned to office.

Immigrant advocates said the move creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government.

Demands from the White House for a drastic increase in arrests of people who have entered the country illegally have pushed immigration officials into overdrive to fulfill President Donald Trump’s pledge of mass deportations.

The operation began Monday and targeted immigrants living in the country illegally with final deportation orders, according to an ICE official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation. The officers picked up more than 275 migrants with final removal orders, the data showed.

The Biden administration had extended protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans. The cancellation of the extension could open them up to deportation in the coming months.

A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target Biden-era programs that let in more than a million people.

Immigration officials sent dozens of Haitians back to their home country on Thursday, according to three government officials, in the first deportation flight conducted by the United States government in months to the country, which has been gripped by widespread violence.