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"A group of 11 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and eight migrant detainees are stuck in a converted shipping container in Djibouti after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting immigrants to third-party countries without due process. The group’s plight was described Thursday in a filing in U.S. District Court, where Melissa Harper, a senior ICE official overseeing deportations, said they’re being housed in a converted shipping container on the U.S. Navy base in Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.
According to Harper, the daily temperature outside exceeds 100 degrees Fahrenheit. At night, Djibouti ignites burn pits near the base to dispose of trash and human waste, creating a lingering smog cloud. Defense officials also warned the group upon their arrival “of imminent danger of rocket attacks” from terrorist groups in nearby Yemen. Harper said members of the group have fallen ill and complained about a lack of medical equipment, including testing for what agents described as upper respiratory infections, all developed within 72 hours of landing.
The detainees, who hail from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar and Vietnam, were quietly flown out of the country more than two weeks ago, violating the orders of a federal judge barring the government from deporting people to a third-party country — a nation other than the U.S. or their nation of origin — without first giving them a meaningful chance to contest it. It’s also unclear why ICE would continue to subject the group to inhospitable conditions when they could simply return to the United States for the requisite hearings. DHS didn’t respond to a question to that effect. Instead, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughin lambasted U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy on social media, accusing Murphy of “putting the lives of our ICE law enforcement in danger by stranding them in Djibouti without proper resources, lack of medical care, and terrorists who hate Americans running rampant."
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So the government defies a court order and blames the court for the horrid consequence of their illegal defiance.
Is this a great country or what?
According to Harper, the daily temperature outside exceeds 100 degrees Fahrenheit. At night, Djibouti ignites burn pits near the base to dispose of trash and human waste, creating a lingering smog cloud. Defense officials also warned the group upon their arrival “of imminent danger of rocket attacks” from terrorist groups in nearby Yemen. Harper said members of the group have fallen ill and complained about a lack of medical equipment, including testing for what agents described as upper respiratory infections, all developed within 72 hours of landing.
The detainees, who hail from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar and Vietnam, were quietly flown out of the country more than two weeks ago, violating the orders of a federal judge barring the government from deporting people to a third-party country — a nation other than the U.S. or their nation of origin — without first giving them a meaningful chance to contest it. It’s also unclear why ICE would continue to subject the group to inhospitable conditions when they could simply return to the United States for the requisite hearings. DHS didn’t respond to a question to that effect. Instead, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughin lambasted U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy on social media, accusing Murphy of “putting the lives of our ICE law enforcement in danger by stranding them in Djibouti without proper resources, lack of medical care, and terrorists who hate Americans running rampant."
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So the government defies a court order and blames the court for the horrid consequence of their illegal defiance.
Is this a great country or what?
