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ICE Agents and Their Prisoners Left Stranded in Shipping Container in Djibouti

HeadlineJun 06, 2025

Nearly a dozen ICE agents have been left stranded alongside a group of eight deportees in a converted shipping container at a U.S. military base in Djibouti. That’s according to an extraordinary document filed in federal court Thursday by an ICE official, who writes that agents and detainees face risks from disease, extreme heat, poor air quality, and warnings of potential rocket attacks on the base by Yemen’s Houthi fighters. The deportees arrived in Djibouti aboard a U.S. deportation flight after a federal judge ruled they could not be transferred to South Sudan — a nation on the brink of civil war to which they are not citizens. Rather than return the deportees to the U.S. to reopen their cases, they were rerouted to Djibouti. 

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