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Somalis say they were shackled and beaten on aborted ICE deportation flight
December 14, 2017
Rahim Mohamed, 32, was already dreading being deported from his home of 15 years in Atlanta to Somalia, a country he hadn’t seen since he was a teenager. His dread transformed into a nightmare when he…
ICE KEPT 92 IMMIGRANTS SHACKLED ON A PLANE FOR TWO DAYS IN 'SLAVE SHIP' CONDITIONS, ADVOCATES SAY
December 14, 2017
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) kept 92 Somali immigrants chained on an airplane for 46 hours in "slave ship" conditions during a botched attempt to deport them back to Somalia earlier this …
For Minnesota Somalis, a raw, rising fear of deportation
December 13, 2017
Mohamed Hussein arrived in Minnesota as an infant more than 20 years ago. On Thursday morning, he was taken from the United States in shackles on a plane bound for Somalia, a country he's never seen, …
Deported to Somalia, a return trip to Miami
December 12, 2017
A Twin Cities attorney representing a Mayo Clinic cardiovascular technician under a deportation order is seeking to have his case reopened after a flight carrying him and 91 other Somali citizens to t…
ICE Flight Deporting 92 Somali Nationals Stops Short of Somalia, Returns to US
December 10, 2017
A deportation flight bound for Somalia and carrying 92 Somali nationals never actually landed in the country and instead was returned to the U.S. because of logistical issues.
An Immigrations and Cus…
92 Somalis being deported from the U.S. fly 5,000 miles to Africa before returning to Florida
December 10, 2017
Undocumented immigrants who were being deported to Somalia on Thursday made it to Senegal before they all returned on a flight back to the U.S., according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforceme…
Deportees to Somalia spent days shackled on plane that was detoured back to U.S., attorney says
December 9, 2017
In what has been called a bizarre turn of events, a plane bound for Somalia carrying deportees, including two Twin Cities men, returned to the United States on Friday, landing in Miami.
One of the pa…