In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a city contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
Gillian Brockell
Gillian Brockell is a former Washington Post staff writer and former flight attendant. Her reporting on ICE flights can also be found in Zeteo, Rolling Stone, and her newsletter.
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Supreme Court Allows ICE to Restart Third-Country Removals
Two federal courts have said it’s obviously unlawful to expel immigrants to a place they’ve never been. And yet.
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Judges Reject ICE’s Underhanded Attempt to Maintain Third-Country Removals
An appeals court made clear deportation flights to third countries must stop immediately, but flight data showed ICE may be violating the order.
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ICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals
Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.
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Appeals Court Smacks Down Trump’s Third-Country Removal Policy
Tens of thousands of people have been subjected to the cruel policy, but the Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ could soon bring it back.
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Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier
Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely
much worse.
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel
‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Liberia Joins Trump’s ‘Third-Country Deportation’ Network
The African republic says it will take up to 1,200 noncitizen deportees beginning with the flight on Thursday.