Deportees Detained in Converted Shipping
In the Thursday court submission, Mellissa Harper, the acting deputy executive associate director at ICE, stated that the migrants are
"The use of shipping containers to detain people is heinous and enraging —and coupled with the extreme heat, disease, and threats of rocket attacks in Djibouti, can be deadly," Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy Director of Detention Watch Network said in a statement shared with Newsweek.
The Trump administration said the converted conference room in the shipping container is the only viable place to house the men on the base in Djibouti, where outdoor daily temperatures rise above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), according to the declaration from an ICE official.
ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why the officers and migrants were still in Djibouti. In the Thursday court filing, Mellissa Harper, acting deputy executive associate director at ICE, said that the migrants are being held in a conference room in a converted Conex shipping container at Camp Lemonnier, a U.S. Naval Base.
(Justin Hamel/AFP/Getty Images) Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen, according to a federal court filing issued Thursday.
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