Nearly a dozen ICE agents are stranded with eight deportees in a converted shipping container at a U.S. military base in Djibouti. This information comes from a remarkable document submitted to federal court on Thursday by an ICE official. The document highlights the risks faced by both agents and detainees, including disease, extreme heat, poor air quality, and potential rocket attacks from Yemen’s Houthi fighters.
The deportees arrived in Djibouti on a U.S. deportation flight after a federal judge ruled they could not be sent to South Sudan, a country on the verge of civil war where they are not citizens. Instead of returning the deportees to the U.S. to reopen their cases, they were redirected to Djibouti.
