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

submitted 1 week 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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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago (3 children)

it's there and international treaty about human trafficking?

this is human trafficking

[–] arin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shipping containers of shackled humans...

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

international law don't apply to Western nations. US is reviving the slave trade trafficking shackled people in shipping containers, and Israel is straight up partaking in high sea piracy to stop aid.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who’s gonna enforce it? We waste billions on the UN and they do jack all for anyone

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week 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.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week 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

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

BRICS is unleashing a currency that will be oartially human slave backed. Slavery is a major part of MAGA and BRICS goals. Cannot emphasize that enough.