US EditionLawsuit says US held West African migrants in straitjackets for 16 hours on flight to Ghana
Five migrants filed a lawsuit alleging they were restrained in straitjackets and shackled for 16 hours during a deportation flight to a third country, followed by detention in poor conditions.
- A lawsuit filed on September 5 on behalf of five West African migrants claims they were restrained with straitjackets and shackles for a 16-hour U.S. military cargo flight to Ghana.
- The lawsuit contends these migrants, not originally from Ghana, were deported despite having fear-based relief and without designating Ghana as a removal country.
- Fourteen West African migrants were removed from their cells at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, and are currently confined under armed military supervision in harsh and unsanitary conditions at the Dema Camp detention site in Ghana.
- The complaint demands a halt to deportations, noting passengers were shackled, awoken mid-flight without destination notice, given only bread and water, and some face imminent removal to dangerous countries.
- This case highlights legal challenges against the Trump administration's policy of deporting migrants to third countries, which critics argue violates U.S. immigration rulings and humanitarian standards.
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Independent EspañolSome citizens of African nations who were deported from the United States to Ghana were kept on "force shirts" for 16 hours on a flight in which all passengers were chained, and only given bread and water, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday.
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Lawsuit Says US Held West African Migrants in Straitjackets for 16 Hours on Flight to Ghana
A lawsuit says some West Africans who were deported to Ghana were held in “straitjackets” for 16 hours on a U.S. military plane on which all passengers were shackled and given only bread and water.
Lawsuit says US held West African migrants in straitjackets for 16 hou
Some West Africans who were deported from the U.S. to Ghana were held in “straitjackets” for 16 hours on a flight during which all passengers were shackled and given only bread and water, according to a lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington on behalf of five migrants, says passengers were awoken in the middle of the night on Sept. 5 and not told where they were going until hours into the flight on a U.S. militar…
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Lawsuit says US held West African migrants in straitjackets for 16 hours on flight to Ghana
A lawsuit says some West Africans who were deported to Ghana were held in “straitjackets” for 16 hours on a U.S. military plane on which all passengers were shackled and given only bread and water.
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