A Land Unknown

A man wins his case. An immigration judge finds that the government of his

country would torture him, and forbids his removal there. Four years later he

is put on an aircraft to a country he has never seen, handed to a warden who

has no charge against him, and held in a prison built by somebody else's

emergency.

Nobody broke the law. That is the problem.

A Land Unknown is the first full legal account of what the United States has

built since 2025 - a triangular system of third-country removals, purchased

detention, and confidential agreements in which the decision to expel is

deliberately separated from responsibility for what follows. Drawing on the

governing statutes, the 2025-2026 litigation, and the failed experiments of

Britain, Australia, Canada and Italy, Dr. Zahir Hasan shows that the failures

here are not administrative. They are the design.

Rigorous enough for a courtroom and written for anyone who has ever wondered

what a border is actually for, this book ends where the evidence leads: not

with a better procedure, but with a statute that would prohibit the practice

outright.

For readers of immigration law, human rights, and American politics.