A contingent of men deported from the US to Djibouti, East Africa, are stranded in a converted shipping container alongside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers who were tasked with their supervision after a court halted their deportation flight to South Sudan.According to US government reports, both the eight deportees and 13 Ice staff […]
On May 20th, a flight with eight deportees left Texas headed to South Sudan, a country on the brink of civil war. But mid-flight, a judicial battle began to unfold that forced the flight to land in Djibouti. Katrin Bennhold, speaks with Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times reporter covering Homeland Security and Immigration, to understand […]
The White House confirmed on Thursday that a flight with eight immigrants left Texas this week, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt lashing out at a federal judge who held that the Donald Trump administration was in violation of his earlier injunction. US District Court judge Brian Murphy had barred the federal government from sending immigrants […]
