An ICE flight is scheduled to land in Equatorial Guinea, where immigrant Ahmed Soliman is currently imprisoned—but only to expel more immigrants.
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Third-Country National Stuck in Airport for Days After Release From African Prison
Finally out of the prison Trump expelled him to, Phone Chomsavanh’s fight for freedom hit one more snag.
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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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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.
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Palestine, Writing, and Everything Else
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lovely little book on big, urgent matters