Deportation flights from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ begin
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Heidy Sánchez brought her young daughter with her to an appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Florida in April, her attorney says. Instead, it was the last time she saw her husband,
The highlights this week: Africans express outrage over the Trump administration’s deportation of migrants to Eswatini, the European Union imposes a fourth round of sanctions on officials and companies linked to Sudan’s civil war, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels pledge to sign a peace deal.
Alexandria Dowell's husband, a Cuban immigrant, was deported to Mexico, highlighting the struggles deportees face in third-country deportations.
"The third countries that have received or been about to receive third-country deportees so far—El Salvador, Libya, South Sudan, now Eswatini—are marked by serious pre-existing human rights violations. This is a recipe for prolonged arbitrary detention or worse."
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Courier-Post on MSNMigrant detention center could hold thousands at South Jersey base
Joint Base MDL, aka Fort Dix, to join Guantanamo and a facility in Indiana in housing detained migrants under a Trump administration plan.
Five immigrant detainees from Vietnam, Laos, Jamaica, Cuba and Yemen have been sent to the small nation of Eswatini in Southern Africa.
The full scope of the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan – which has been evident in theory – is only just starting to come together in practice, and its scale has come as a surprise to many Americans.
More importantly, however, there is nothing in the Constitution, federal statute, or federal regulation that empowers an illegal immigrant to choose which country they are deported to. If an ...
The memo instructs ICE employees on how to deport people to countries other than their country of origin, in some cases in as little as six hours.
In exchange for millions of dollars, El Salvador’s self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele, has housed at least 288 mostly Venezulan migrants to the United States in CECOT. Detainees in the prison are not allowed outside contact, and face alleged torture and physical abuse inside the facility.