Nearly a dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, along with eight deportees are reportedly stranded in a military base in the East African nation of Djibouti, where they are faced with dire conditions, including the risk of malaria, chronic respiratory illnesses and smog from burn pits with human waste, a recent federal court filing revealed.
The saga began when U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Boston blocked an ICE deportation flight taking migrants from Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and Mexico to South Sudan over two weeks ago. He argued that the Trump administration was violating a previous country preventing migrants from being deported to countries where they are not citizens without a chance to ask for humanitarian protection.
