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highplainsdem

(58,072 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:50 PM Jun 2025

ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants [View all]

Source: Washington Post

Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen, according to a federal court filing issued Thursday.

A federal judge in Boston interrupted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight taking immigrants from Cuba, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and Mexico to South Sudan more than two weeks ago. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy said the flight violated his order prohibiting officials from sending immigrants to countries where they aren’t citizens without a chance to ask for humanitarian protection. He instructed officials to arrange screenings.

Trump officials could have flown the immigrants back to the United States. Instead, they were taken to Djibouti, where in late May officers turned a Conex container into a makeshift detention facility on U.S. Naval Base Camp Lemonnier, according to Mellissa Harper, a top ICE official, who detailed the conditions Thursday in a required status update to the judge.

Three officers and eight detainees arrived at the only U.S. military base in Africa unprepared for what awaited them. Defense officials warned them of “imminent danger of rocket attacks from terrorist groups in Yemen,” but the ICE officers did not pack body armor or other gear to protect themselves. Temperatures soar past 100 degrees during the day. At night, she wrote, a “smog cloud” forms in the windless sky, filled with rancid smoke from nearby burning pits where residents incinerate trash and human waste.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/05/djibouti-deportations-migrants-ice-trump/

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Those poor migrants ck4829 Jun 2025 #1
No sympathy for the specific piece of shit fed employees who kidnapped the immigrants. SSJVegeta Jun 2025 #2
So sad for the immigrants ... UpInArms Jun 2025 #3
Its only a matter of time before karma catches up on them in horrible ways. SSJVegeta Jun 2025 #4
I hope very quickly JustAnotherGen Jun 2025 #8
Reminds me of the slave ships Keepthesoulalive Jun 2025 #10
P!ease read about the situation LtTx Jun 2025 #28
That has nothing to do JustAnotherGen Jun 2025 #30
Thanks for clarifying orangecrush Jun 2025 #33
How on brand is that? underpants Jun 2025 #5
Did the Traildogbob Jun 2025 #6
Well, bless their hearts. Lars39 Jun 2025 #7
I feel sad for the 8 migrants, I hope they survive. The j6ers can burn.🔥 Clouds Passing Jun 2025 #9
I would point out James48 Jun 2025 #11
Way to miss the points. Are they living in shipping containers? niyad Jun 2025 #13
Modified ones, it sounds like. sl8 Jun 2025 #14
Yes. James48 Jun 2025 #20
Yes LtTx Jun 2025 #25
They weren't kidnapped and aren't held against their will. yardwork Jun 2025 #27
They were flown out Violating the orbers of a Federal Judge. sheshe2 Jun 2025 #31
Right. Completely different from the military personnel. yardwork Jun 2025 #32
A shipping container? A US military base??? WTAFH?????? niyad Jun 2025 #12
Read the link LtTx Jun 2025 #24
Body armor for the officers and prayers for the detained. flashman13 Jun 2025 #15
The 30 ICE jackwads who showed up in San Diego to arrest 2 dishwashers did it in full body armor. SunSeeker Jun 2025 #18
hem AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #16
On top of everything the military is doing, they now have to babysit a FSogol Jun 2025 #17
The insanity of trying to ensure they are "beyond jurisdiction" pat_k Jun 2025 #19
perhaps this will create a sudden burst of empathy from these agents. Javaman Jun 2025 #21
Kick dalton99a Jun 2025 #22
Jeezus those poor people! LearnedHand Jun 2025 #23
Well atreides1 Jun 2025 #26
KARMA ? republianmushroom Jun 2025 #29
What Did Those ICE Officers Ever Do To Deserve This? DrFunkenstein Jun 2025 #34
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