ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants
Source: Washington Post
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 arent citizens without a chance to ask for humanitarian protection. He instructed officials to arrange screenings.
Trump officials could have flown the immigrants back to the United States. Instead, they were taken to Djibouti, where in late May officers turned a Conex container into a makeshift detention facility on U.S. Naval Base Camp Lemonnier, according to Mellissa Harper, a top ICE official, who detailed the conditions Thursday in a required status update to the judge.
Three officers and eight detainees arrived at the only U.S. military base in Africa unprepared for what awaited them. Defense officials warned them of imminent danger of rocket attacks from terrorist groups in Yemen, but the ICE officers did not pack body armor or other gear to protect themselves. Temperatures soar past 100 degrees during the day. At night, she wrote, a smog cloud forms in the windless sky, filled with rancid smoke from nearby burning pits where residents incinerate trash and human waste.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/05/djibouti-deportations-migrants-ice-trump/

ck4829
(36,908 posts)SSJVegeta
(594 posts)But all the sympathy in the world for the suffering migrants. So fucked up.
UpInArms
(52,845 posts)Laughing my ass off at the ICE fucktards doing the FAFO
SSJVegeta
(594 posts)JustAnotherGen
(35,266 posts)This is sick, insane, and inhumane.
I hope the human beings they are trafficking make it out alive.
Keepthesoulalive
(1,387 posts)Maybe thats the point.
LtTx
(20 posts)They are not locked in a container. They are at a US base in supplemental housing.
JustAnotherGen
(35,266 posts)With me wishing awful things happen to evil people who kidnap and traffic human beings.
NOT a single one of those people should be there.
orangecrush
(24,873 posts)Appreciated
underpants
(190,934 posts)
They must wear slip ons because I cant imagine any of the Clustertrump being able yo tie their shoes.
Traildogbob
(11,261 posts)Fuck wads have to remove theirs masks to breathe, thus giving up their identity as J6 thugs?
Lars39
(26,385 posts)
Clouds Passing
(5,033 posts)James48
(4,840 posts)That the conditions you all are appalled by are the normal duty station of a significant number of US military personnel. They are in a base in the U.S. military section- and our uniformed men and women function there every day. Yes, it gets to be 100F. Please remember the US Navy personnel living there.
niyad
(124,122 posts)sl8
(16,600 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:13 AM - Edit history (1)
Of course, the folks stationed there are dealing with the same temperatures, bad air, and threats of attack, for much longer.
https://cnreurafcent.cnic.navy.mil/Installations/Camp-Lemonnier-Djibouti/About/Installation-Guide/Military-Support/Relocation-Assistance/Life-at-Camp/Living-Quarters/
Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti - Living Quarters
On edit:
According to the "Welcome Aboard" package, the base does have traditional barracks, but some personnel may be assigned CLUs or tents as living quarters, as needs dictate.
https://cnreurafcent.cnic.navy.mil/Portals/78/Camp_Lemonnier_Djibouti/Documents/Welcome%20Aboard%20Package/Welcome%20Aboard%20Package%202025.pdf
The same ones Havy people live in.
Its the same container stacked housing complex that our Navy people live in.
Some of them are. Read the link supplied by sI8
yardwork
(66,867 posts)They've been trained and prepared to work in these conditions.
sheshe2
(92,264 posts)https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-officers-shipping-container-djibouti_n_68430211e4b043146daa7d75
yardwork
(66,867 posts)I was pointing out the false equivalence. Thanks for this additional info, sheshe!
This is such a disgrace to our nation.
niyad
(124,122 posts)Supplied by sI8
flashman13
(1,238 posts)SunSeeker
(55,945 posts)Maybe those ICE jackwads took all the gear?
AllaN01Bear
(25,450 posts)FSogol
(47,367 posts)bunch of ICE fuck-ups.
pat_k
(11,259 posts)Just fly them all the fuck back!!
What is beyond insanity? Because this is it. Incomprehensible. Beyond the most craven, corrupt, evil, immoral, Un-American lunacy imaginable. And then some.
Javaman
(63,953 posts)I doubt it.
nazi's gotta nazi.
dalton99a
(88,793 posts)LearnedHand
(4,744 posts)The migrants I mean. The ICE thugs can fucking be there for it, far as I care. It's a really good thing for the jailers to experience what they do to the jailed.
atreides1
(16,673 posts)I feel sorry for the detainees...but not the Gestapo officers!
republianmushroom
(20,144 posts)DrFunkenstein
(8,776 posts)I hope they get a fate they truly deserve.