ICE Officers Trapped in a Shipping Container With Deportees [View all]

Eight deportees and over a dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are stranded in a shipping container in east Africa after a judge blocked their deportation flight.

Neither the officers or immigrants are able to leave the container, located in a U.S. naval base in the scorching-hot nation of Djibouti, until the matter has been resolved by the courts, which could take weeks.

The eight deportees, who hail from Myanmar, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Mexico and South Sudan, were accused of being convicted criminals by the Trump administration and deported in late May, the Washington Post reports. After the countries declined to accept them all eight were instead sent to South Sudan, until a U.S. federal judge ruled they had the right to challenge their convictions in court.

The thirteen ICE officials meanwhile, fell ill immediately after landing and are currently suffering from respiratory infections, as well as extreme heat and cramped living conditions. They, along with the deportees, have been forced to reside in a makeshift detention center until the matter is resolved, with only six beds between them.

Court documents filed by top ICE and DHS official Mellisa Harper claim the ICE officials are experiencing “coughing, difficulty breathing, fever, and achy joints,”” and outside temperatures which exceed 100F, along with threats of malaria. At night, the air fills with a “smog cloud” filled with rancid smoke formed from nearby pits where locals burn trash and human waste, which is so polluted that some officers have taken to sleeping with facial masks on.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-officers-trapped-in-a-shipping-container-with-deported-migrants/

Awww, poor ICE-bros! My heart just BLEEDS for them! Meanwhile, the deportees are suffering the same things. And why does it take a *DOZEN* ICE bros to deport a mere eight guys to somewhere they're not even from? I hope they're all REAL sick.