Deported immigrants, mostly Asian and Latino, will be in Djibouti for 2 weeks, White House says

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3. Their home countries either cannot or will not take them back. Myanmar, for example, is in a state of civil war.

The deportees on the plane - according the the Trump administration - are convicted criminals.

The apparent strategy is to go around legitimate methods and send them back by proxy. If the law and the courts say they cant send them to Vietnam of Myanmar, dump them on an unwilling third country like South Sudan, which has vowed to deport these people onward to their home countries.

If South Sudan can't repatriate them, they are stranded, effectively stateless and highly vulnerable in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

Inhumane? Yes, and that's the point.