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Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

You can read my story about one of those third-country removals here prospect.org/2026/08/20/l...

prospect.orgLiberia Joins Trump’s ‘Third-Country Deportation’ Network - The American ProspectThe African republic says it will take up to 1,200 noncitizen deportees beginning with the flight on Thursday.

21/8/26, 11:24 am46 reposts95 likes

solo

@solodeveloping.bsky.social

21 Aug

Related: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesto... Liberia is the old racist project of the US It's not surprising the white supremacists are using it to expel immigrants The original purpose of Liberia was to expel black Americans and enslave them there

solo

@solodeveloping.bsky.social

21 Aug

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGtr...

youtube.comCharles Taylor's Ultimatum for FirestoneYouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

solo

@solodeveloping.bsky.social

21 Aug

"In July 2009, Taylor claimed at his trial that US CIA agents had helped him escape. The US Defense Intelligence Agency confirmed that Taylor first started working with US intelligence in the 1980s but refused to give details of his role or US actions, citing national security."

en.wikipedia.orgCharles Taylor (Liberian politician) - Wikipedia

solo

@solodeveloping.bsky.social

21 Aug

People need to look up the Liberian genocide, totally sponsored by the psycho-right and "liberals" of the US It's something truly horrifying They recruited small children, and task them to murder their family, tribe, friends To rape and murder everything www.ohchr.org/en/statement...

ohchr.orgCRC welcomes Charles Taylor conviction as deterrent to use of children in armed conflictGeneva, 3 October 2013 – The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has welcomed the judgment by the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone to uphold the conviction of former Liberian ...

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

21 Aug

And the Third-Country Removal Tracker has been updated. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

gillianbrockell.comTracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country RemovalsTrump's ICE has expelled an estimated 22,000 people to countries where they have no ties. Find out where they are going, what happens to them, and who profits.

jientho.bsky.social

@jientho.bsky.social

21 Aug

Ghana is particularly ironic, in that they had renamed their “Door of No Return” to “Door of Return”. But this (U.S. forced removals) is not what they had in mind surely… Edit to add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_of_Return (Edited 8:36 AM via @skeetsapp.com)

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

21 Aug

There is another ICE flight to Africa in progress, which could include third-country nationals. Will know more when we see where it lands.

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

21 Aug

Correction to the top post in this thread: bsky.app/profile/gill...

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

CORRECTION: After looking at the flight data a little closer, there were SIX third-country removals, with an additional stop in Equatorial Guinea -- where migrants already trapped there say officials are beating them and threatening them at gunpoint.