The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there.
When they asked to speak to their attorney, he said, the officers refused and straitjacketed the already-shackled men in full-body restraint suits called the WRAP, then loaded them onto a plane for the 16-hour-flight to West Africa.
Referred to as “the burrito” or “the bag,” the WRAP has become a harrowing part of deportations for some immigrants.
“It was just like a kidnapping,” the Nigerian man, who’s part of a federal lawsuit, told The Associated Press in an interview from the detainment camp in which he and other deportees were being held in Ghana. Like others placed in the restraints interviewed by the AP, he spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
”It was
just likea kidnapping”This was unequivocally kidnapping. No due process, just ripped and tied up and trafficked to a completely foreign country with no warning.
May every ICE member face the same treatment they gave others.
But instead of deporting them, just leave them all crammed in a wagon somewhere. For that real WWII experience they seem to idolize.
At least history book writers can re-use some diagrams with minimal updating…
