South Sudan Container Base

4 FAQs about South Sudan Container Base

Where are South Sudan migrants now?

Migrants placed on a deportation flight bound initially for South Sudan are now being held in a converted shipping container on a U.S. naval base in Djibouti, where the men and their guards are contending with baking hot temperatures, smoke from nearby burn pits and the looming threat of rocket attacks, the Trump administration said.

Could ice bring a convicted migrant to South Sudan?

ICE could literally bring the men to any other U.S. base (or back to the U.S.) at any time!” Murphy's ruling in May interrupted a deportation flight carrying the migrants — who have been convicted of crimes and are from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, South Sudan, and Vietnam — to South Sudan.

Why is South Sudan sending a prisoner to a third country?

In many cases, they served lengthy criminal sentences. Seven of the men have no ties to South Sudan, but the administration wants to send them there as part of an effort to expel people to so-called third countries when U.S. law bars them from being sent to their home countries or when their home countries will not accept them.

Can shipping containers detain people in Djibouti?

"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.