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The USA is committing crimes against humanity daily. All the post-WWII American Exceptionalism propaganda fed the arrogance that today has people convinced “it can’t happen here” while those who want it to happen here are busy *making* it happen here. I state this as a patriot demanding better.

nytimes.comU.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

Omni transported the first group of nine third-country nationals to Cameroon last month. The migrants and their attorneys told the NYT they were being held at a government compound and pressured to return to their home countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

gillianbrockell.ghost.ioTracking All of Trump’s Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of)Bookmark this post, it will be updated.

ICE has sent this second group knowing they're likely to be returned to countries where they may face torture, persecution or death. This amounts to chain refoulement, a violation of US and international law. I've updated the Third-Country Removal Tracker. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all...

ProtestSPb

@protestspb.bsky.social

17 Feb

Romania and Cuba are missing there

ProtestSPb

@protestspb.bsky.social

17 Feb

And probably Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

PBWisco

@pbwisco.bsky.social

Is there an organization on the ground in these places prepared to help these people? And are helping them? Can we support them financially...those of us who care about this cause??

The International Organization on Migration has been able to visit many of them and is trying to help, but it is limited in what it can do beyond facilitating repatriation.

motherjones.comICE deportation flights are getting longer and cruelerA private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

For more on Omni Air International's participation in ICE's human rights abuses, please read my recent Mother Jones story. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...