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ICE Said They Were Being Flown to Louisiana. Their Flight Landed in Africa (theintercept.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The only way to avoid this was to spend 4 years doing what the people whose votes you need wanted instead of continuing to fund ICE.