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ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants
ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants

Washington Post

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ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants

Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen, according to a federal court filing issued Thursday. A federal judge in Boston interrupted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight taking immigrants from Cuba, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and Mexico to South Sudan more than two weeks ago. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy said the flight violated his order prohibiting officials from sending immigrants to countries where they aren't citizens without a chance to ask for humanitarian protection. He instructed officials to arrange screenings.

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