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ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

A little window into the dystopian world of third country deportations:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“Immergut” is German and means “always good.”

It’s mainly the Eswatini government that has stonewalled our efforts to have contact with the men. One of their stories was that the US Embassy was in charge…but that seems unlikely.

This is a good time to request that you participate in Amnesty International’s Urgent Action for our clients who were deported to Eswatini in July:

amnesty.ca/urgent-actio...

Here we go again …

Mystery deepens: Hundreds of immigrants disappear from infamous Florida ICE prison Alligator Alcatraz The mysterious disappearance of hundreds of immigrants detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration processing center near Miami, Florida, has raised serious concerns. About 800 detainees who were h...

As an org that has documented thousands of disappearances w/in the immigration system, we can say that what's going on here meets the UN definition of enforced disappearances. To say that the US is hurdling towards authoritarianism is no longer hyperbole
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Temu Goebbels 🤭

Hats off to @aaaj-aajc.bsky.social for rising to the occasion of filing this important lawsuit as quickly and with as much skill & dedication as they did 💫

I assume this isn’t the last we have heard about chain refoulement after 3rd country deportations - so the battle to prevent it continues.

The court’s hands are tied to stop the administration from cavalierly sending people to torture. That’s where we are.

Well sh**.

And still…🦗🦗🦗from Judge Chutkan

ICE Is Back On Its Bullsh*t Deporting people in the dead of the night is kind of a tell, TBH.

In today's post, we break down the developments in D.A. v. Noem, the case in which the Trump administration used Ghana as a waypoint for chain refoulment - WHICH IS TORTURE.

What can be done about it? Read on with @lizdye.bsky.social

www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ice-is-bac...

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...

Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes.

One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.

D.A. v. NOEM, 1:25-cv-03135 - CourtListener.com Docket for D.A. v. NOEM, 1:25-cv-03135 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

It doesn’t get much worse than this, if you ask me (though I have managed to be surprised several times in the past 8 months).

This is the docket for the case: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71323...

On the military flight from the US to Ghana, several of the men were put in straitjackets. Others were shackled.

As with many of the Third Country Removals, they didn’t even know where they were going until they were on the plane.

Several others, who were granted protection by US Immigration Judges from removal to Nigeria, were on the same flight to Ghana.

They are being held in a run-down camp and have been told they will be deported to Nigeria imminently.

The worst case scenario (not that any of isn’t terrible) with regard to Third Country Removals has happened:

A person, whom a US Immigration Judge determined was more likely than not to be tortured in The Gambia, was deported to a third country (Ghana)…which immediately deported him to The Gambia.

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo 44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US

We are launching a new investigation today, which reveals new details about Trump's deportation program. Our first story is by @maanvisingh.bsky.social and @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Could it have been headed to Ghana? archive.md/yQ6eb

Click here to find a sample letter that you can send to South Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to advocate for Enrique & Nyo, as well as more background on how your action can help them:

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

In these times that have felt profoundly disorienting, as people are moved across borders and oceans like game pieces in what a wise person described to me as a twisted match of 4D chess, I find comfort in reaching back to the tools I know best: good old, people powered grassroots advocacy.

Enrique is from Cuba. Nyo is from Burma. I don’t think either of them had ever heard of South Sudan before they were told that’s where they were headed on a military plane.

They have been detained in South Sudan since.

On the evening of the 4th of July, as fireworks exploded across US skies, ICE deported Enrique and Nyo to South Sudan.

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Uganda for Cooperation in the Examination of Protection Requests The Department of Homeland Security is publishing the Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Uganda for Cooperation in the Examination o...

The U.S. has signed an safe third country agreement with Uganda

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Lawyers say men deported by US to Eswatini are being imprisoned illegally The men, who had been released after serving criminal sentences, are from Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Jamaica and Yemen

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As much as we knew it was coming, it still hurts 💔

Updated article:

wapo.st/4lWW2Fg

Lawyers for 5 men deported to an African prison accuse Trump's program of denying them due process Lawyers for five men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July say they have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without charge or explanation and with...

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