ICE Said They Were Being Flown to Louisiana. Their Flight Landed in Africa.

[Bayard]

When eight men in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement boarded a plane in May, officials told them that they were being sent on a short trip from Texas to another ICE facility in Louisiana.

Many hours later, the plane landed in Djibouti. The men were held in shipping containers for weeks, shackles on their legs. This past weekend, they were expelled to the violence-plagued nation of South Sudan.

This deception, revealed by an Intercept investigation, highlights the lengths to which the U.S. government will go to further its anti-immigrant agenda and deport people to so-called third countries to which they have no connections.

Lawyers for three of the men said that their clients were told, after resisting deportation to Africa, that they were instead being transferred to a detention facility in Louisiana. ICE then hustled them onto a plane, in the wee hours of the morning, and flew them out of the country without their knowledge or consent. This account was further corroborated by the wife of one of those same men who was told about ICE’s tactics in real time.

“This underscores just how abysmal and reprehensible the government’s treatment of these men has been from the very beginning, and the fact that the government made no genuine attempt to comply with the district court injunction in place prior to shipping them out of the United States,” said Glenda Aldana Madrid, a staff attorney at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project who is representing one of the men, Tuan Thanh Phan.

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The country is subject to a U.N. warning about the potential for full-scale civil war. South Sudan is also under a U.S. State Department “Level 4: Do Not Travel” advisory and the department advises those who choose to go there to draft a will, establish a proof of life protocol with family members, and leave DNA samples with one’s medical provider.

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/08/ice-deportation-louisiana-south-sudan/


There is no doubt in my mind that trump is trying to kill these people, one way or another.

[Skittles]

1. they are disappearing people

they'll start with the "undesirables" (murderers, sex-offenders) but understand this: if they can do this to them, THEY CAN DO IT TO YOU

[tulipsandroses]

2. Why are so many Americans OK with this? Many of them have families here.

What do we think will happen to the families they leave behind. People who voted for this, better not say a thing if those children need food assistance or any government assistance after you have removed the father who was working and providing for them.

[Justice matters.]

8. Well... the 'needy' billionaires are cutting food assistance too...

Maybe a promising business to start up could be:
Manufacturing guilotines inside the US of A. Hmm?

[D. Spaulding]

3. This is all so unbelievable

What happens to these people once they get there? It's doubtful they have much with them.

[Diraven]

4. Trump couldn't care less

He paid to make them go away, now they're gone. Even if they're executed the moment they step off the plane, legally the US is no longer responsible.

[MrWowWow]

5. How is this Legal?

The LardASS Junta is a crime family. When will the ICC swear out a warrant for LardASS's arrest?

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Isn't he paying these other countries to accept them, like those sent to El Salvador?

[Justice matters.]

7. Is there a city name called 'Nuremberg' in the US?

If so, get ready for the final trial there?

miller ho-man-bondi-hegseth, all "following orders" eh?

[Duppers]

10. Indeed!

Exactly in the line of what I was thinking.

If this is the leadership this country wants, then I do not belong here.

[Disaffected]

9. IMO we are really getting into

Crimes Against Humanity territory here. ICC, where are you??

[Kablooie]

11. What is more disturbing is that

the government is free do do these evil, inhumane illegal things and nobody can do anything to stop it.
It boggles the mind.

[markodochartaigh]

12. I don't think that Trump is

"trying to kill these people one way or another."

I think that Trump, and those in the regime, are trying to prove that they can do anything that they want with anyone, and neither the legislative nor the judicial branch can stop them.

These unfortunate people are simply being used as pawns in a sick strategem to undermine the Constitution and convert the presidency into an office more similar to a king.