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"Slave Ship Conditions" for Somalis as Deportation Flight Sheds Light on Horrific Practices Under Trump
December 19, 2017
Credit: Common Dreams
For nearly 48 hours, before a deportation flight bound for Somalia was rerouted back to the U.S., 92 people on board were shackled and denied food, water, and access to bathrooms.
Attorneys for 92 So…
Somalis were shackled for nearly 48 hours on failed US deportation flight
December 19, 2017
More than 90 Somali men and women were held shackled on an airplane for nearly 48 hours – and some were forced to urinate where they sat – during a failed attempt to deport them from the US, according…
Somalis shackled in ‘slave ship’ conditions without food or water during two-day deportation flight
December 18, 2017
Ninety-two Somali immigrants are calling out the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after they claim their deportation was like something off of a “slave ship” in the 1700s.A PRI report even det…
Somalis face 'slave ship conditions' on failed deportation flight
December 15, 2017
Ninety-two Somali immigrants, set to be deported from the US, found themselves shackled at the hands and feet and kept aboard a plane for two days earlier this month. That part of the story is not in …
Somalis say they were shackled and beaten on aborted ICE deportation flight
December 14, 2017
Credit: VICE
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, …