When eight men in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement boarded a plane in May, officials told them that they were being sent on a short trip from Texas to another ICE facility in Louisiana.
Many hours later, the plane landed in Djibouti. The men were held in shipping containers for weeks, shackles on their legs. This past weekend, they were expelled to the violence-plagued nation of South Sudan.
This deception, revealed by an Intercept investigation, highlights the lengths to which the U.S. government will go to further its anti-immigrant agenda and deport people to so-called third countries to which they have no connections.
semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/trump-administration-container-company-to-provide-temporary-migrant-housing
Here’s another link of them saying they will use shipping containers as housing
But the Africa shipping container story has actually been in the news for weeks, it should be easy to Google
I’ll be the last person to defend Trump, his cabinet members or his policies. But looking at that link, it’s clearly not a shipping container, even though the words are used in the article.
It’s actually this: https://www.willscot.com/en/entertain-host
Container offices, which are clearly not meant to house people in, but aren’t shipping containers either.
I appreciate the nuance. Looking at your link, they also sell shipping containers too that definitely look like an average shipping container to me. I tried to find a picture of the Africa container or an article saying what the brand is, and had no luck. However, it’s possible they are the same company and containers, but not proven. Either way, it got to be above 100*F in Africa for weeks (iirc some articles said 120) and those aren’t meant to be inhabited, for that long, and in that heat especially. They have been wanting to do the shipping containers from the get go because it makes it easy to traffick people long distances, imo.