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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] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At least this is a reminder that we cannot rely on America to do the right thing and police the world. Since WW2 the world has looked to them as a shining light, and now that has all ended and a dark age will begin for America.

The rest of the world will figure out its order and some new leadership will emerge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Central Africa has good prospects: a young and energetic population, an increasingly educated population, economic growth. They look like North America at the beginning of the 20th Century. Some will win and some will lose but they have what it takes to take the lead