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

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is there any more info on this? Besides some text on an unknown website?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Intercept is not an “unknown website”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have never heard of it. And don’t really want to send them my email just to read it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Heres an archived link.

You can usually use something like archive.ph to get around walls like that

The intercept started with Snowden docs, and is so good the military doesn’t want its members to read it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Amazing thank you! I have never heard of this company before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/trump-administration-container-company-to-provide-temporary-migrant-housing

Here's another link of them saying they will use shipping containers as housing

But the Africa shipping container story has actually been in the news for weeks, it should be easy to Google

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll be the last person to defend Trump, his cabinet members or his policies. But looking at that link, it's clearly not a shipping container, even though the words are used in the article.

It's actually this: https://www.willscot.com/en/entertain-host

Container offices, which are clearly not meant to house people in, but aren't shipping containers either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I appreciate the nuance. Looking at your link, they also sell shipping containers too that definitely look like an average shipping container to me. I tried to find a picture of the Africa container or an article saying what the brand is, and had no luck. However, it's possible they are the same company and containers, but not proven. Either way, it got to be above 100*F in Africa for weeks (iirc some articles said 120) and those aren't meant to be inhabited, for that long, and in that heat especially. They have been wanting to do the shipping containers from the get go because it makes it easy to traffick people long distances, imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For sure, this regime is staffed with people who have lost all capacity for empathy, probably due to their troubled upbringing. So it would not be past these folks to use actual shipping containers. They could not care less.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Emphatically, and I can't stress this enough, many of these people are probably serial killers including Trump. Epstein and Ghilisaine regularly threatened a woman they owned with murder if she said anything. The entitlement they think they have to rape someone, especially a child, is the same entitlement they have for directly murdering a person. These people are the type to MAKE snuff, not JUST watch it. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump has killed a kid for sexual gratification - EPSTEIN said Trump was so depraved there was nothing he wouldn't do, on the Fire&Fury Michael Wolff Epstein episode podcast. And per Katie Johnson, Epstein brutally anally and vaginally raped her - so what does he think is "depraved?"

We elected fucking DAHMER and BUNDY types to our government. It's very bad....!