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#Libya

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Andrew Stroehlein

The EU & member states are long complicit in vile abuses against migrants & asylum seekers intercepted at sea and sent back to #Libya - overcrowding, beatings, torture, lack of food & water, forced labor, rape, exploitation of children...

Now, the US wants to join them?

hrw.org/news/2025/05/09/us-don

Men at a detention center in Tripoli, Libya, June 8, 2017.
Human Rights Watch · US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to LibyaThe United States should not forcibly transfer migrants to Libya, where inhumane detention conditions are well-documented, including torture, ill treatment, sexual assault, and unlawful killings.
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maeve harris

#ICE threatens to deport to #Libya migrants from Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines. A judge rules the flight may not proceed before the migrants are given an opportunity to argue that such deportation would put them at extraordinary risk apnews.com/article/libya-depor

AP News · Judge says US must allow migrants a chance to challenge in court any deportations to LibyaA federal judge has found the Trump administration can’t deport migrants to Libya unless they have a meaningful chance to challenge their removal in court. The order from U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts comes after attorneys said immigration authorities informed migrants of plans to deport them to Libya, a country with a history of human rights violations. Murphy previously found that any migrants deported to countries other than their homelands must first be allowed to argue that it would jeopardize their safety. He said any “allegedly imminent” removals would “clearly violate this Court’s Order.”
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

The story about the Trump regime's (apparently not so) secret plans to traffic migrants to torture prisons in Libya has taken a dramatic turn for darkly comic reasons. A federal judge has ordered the US government to halt plans to "deport" migrants to Libya and hand over any information related to planning to do so, after detainees reported being told by ICE agents that they would soon be shipped to that country.

truthout.org/articles/federal-

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Deporting Immigrants to Libya

"The injunction placed by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy states that the Trump administration’s actions would “clearly violate” a previous order he made, violating immigrants’ right to challenge their expulsion to countries other than their homelands.

Murphy also ordered that the U.S. government — which hasn’t formally acknowledged whether or not it is planning to deport people to Libya — hand over any details relating to claims that they are planning such a move, if such details exist.

The immigrants in question are reportedly from the Philippines, Vietnam and Laos, among other countries, according to a report from NBC News. In the legal motion seeking the injunction, lawyers claimed that their clients are being targeted for deportation “without any reasonable fear screening, let alone a fifteen-day window to file a motion to reopen with the immigration court to contest any negative reasonable fear determination.”

I know this is hardly the point of the story, but I remain periodically thankful that all these nazis are such assclowns because the Trump regime would be so much more dangerous if they weren't. Snitched-out by racist braggarts in your own Gestapo is the most "Trump" possible twist to this story, and it'd be grand if for once these peoples' malevolent white supremacy and crass authoritarianism worked on the side of justice and human rights.

Of course the Trump regime continues to neither confirm, nor deny the existence of a plan to traffic migrants illegally and unconstitutionally to torture prisons in Libya, and there's always the possibility that these nazis just ignore the judge's order and dare the courts to do something about it. What they aren't going to be able to do now is replicate their operation to traffic undocumented migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador under the cover of darkness and then claim they had no idea they were breaking the law and violating the constitution. At the end of the day the judge's order is just a slip of paper, but now the scheme is out in the open; Trump's opposition in the media and political classes have no excuse not to go after the regime for this fascist bullshit and demand answers about this clearly criminal plan.

African male detainees at Qanfoodah Detention Center wait in line to be declared present at morning roll call on February 2, 2019, in Benghazi, Libya.
Truthout · Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Deporting Immigrants to LibyaSeveral human rights groups have documented deplorable conditions in Libya’s immigrant prisons.
#Fascism#Trump#Libya
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William Lindsey :toad:

As the Trump regime plans to send immigrants to Libya, Jay Kuo notes,

"Our own State Department advises against travel to Libya, citing the risk of 'crime, terrorism, unexploded land mines, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict.' Last year, it described conditions in detention facilities there as 'harsh and life-threatening' and even noted that immigrants had no access to courts or due process."

#Trump #Trump #ICE #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Libya
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statuskuo.substack.com/p/sendi

The Status Kuo · Sending People…to Libya?!By Jay Kuo
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Caro S.

When the Trump administration is thinking about doing what the EU has been doing to migrants/refugees. Read and weep: social.treehouse.systems/@Anar

The EU pays the Libyan coastguard to tow refugees/migrants back to Libya, full well knowing about the horrors these people will experience there. Meanwhile something something promoting and protecting human rights globally something ... 🙄

EU cognitive dissonance to cover up its own deep rooted fascism is off the charts. Read Césaire, nothing has changed.

Treehouse MastodonAnarchoNinaAnalyzes (@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems)With the heat rising on the Pork Reich because of their migrant trafficking scheme with noted fascist and torture prison operator Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, the regime is apparently looking for new foreign torture gulags to traffic migrants to. Multiple reports have emerged that the Trump regime is on the verge of a deal with Libya to accept "deported" migrants from the United States; this despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that both the UN and the US government's own investigations label Libya as one of the most dangerous places on earth for migrant detainees. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/us-planning-to-deport-migrants-to-libya-despite-hellish-conditions-reports US planning to deport migrants to Libya despite ‘hellish’ conditions – reports "Human rights groups condemned the reported plans, noting the country’s poor record on human rights practices and harsh treatment of detainees. “Migrants have long been trafficked, tortured and ransomed in Libya. The country is in a civil war. It is not a safe place to send anyone,” Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), wrote on X. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, wrote on the platform alongside a picture of a Libyan detention facility: “Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing.” Reichlin-Melnick added: “Amnesty International called these places a ‘hellscape’ where beatings are common and sexual violence are rampant. There are reports of human trafficking and even slavery.” Claudia Lodesani, head of programs for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said the group was “very concerned” about the possible consequences of such a plan, saying reports by media outlets and human rights organisations showed that “Libya is not a safe country for migrants” Lodesani pointed to a 2023 United Nations report which documented “widespread practices of arbitrary detention, torture, rape and slavery and concluding there were grounds to believe a wide array of crimes against humanity have been committed against migrants in Libya.” Reports on exactly how this objectively fascist scheme would work are currently sketchy, but given that the Trump regime's modus operandi has been to willfully break the law to violate the rights of migrants before anyone can tell them not to, and then claim what's done is done after the fact, this particular rumor and the lack of denial by the White House is pretty alarming. At this point it seems abundantly clear that the regime considers human rights violations and potentially lethal confinement conditions to be a feature, not a bug, in the places they're trying to send migrants; which tracks with the Pork Reich's discredited and debunked rhetoric about the effectiveness of intentional cruelty towards migrants as a "deterrent" across both of the Klepto Kaiser's administrations. Unfortunately, we as a society that presumably doesn't want the government to traffic folks guilty of nothing more than a civil immigration violation to foreign torture prisons don't really have time to wait around for the regime to confirm their plans. As the article indicates, some sources claimed the first flights might occur as early as yesterday, so the time for the media and Trump's political opposition to pressure the regime on why it's even considering sending undocumented migrants and asylum seekers to a carceral state where murder, violence, and slavery reportedly awaits them, is right now. Given the response from the media, the judiciary, and society at large to the regime's El Salvador scheme, Trump and DHS officials have to know that they're not legally allowed to traffic abducted migrants to torture prisons in Libya either, so clearly the plan here is to do it fast and let the chips fall where they may; it makes no sense whatsoever to wait around until they actually do it before anyone tries to do anything about it. #Fascism #Trump #MigrantRights #Libya #MigrantCarceralComplex #WhiteNationalism #ICE #DHS #MarcoRubio #USPol #Gestapo
#Fascism#Trump#MigrantRights
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

With the heat rising on the Pork Reich because of their migrant trafficking scheme with noted fascist and torture prison operator Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, the regime is apparently looking for new foreign torture gulags to traffic migrants to. Multiple reports have emerged that the Trump regime is on the verge of a deal with Libya to accept "deported" migrants from the United States; this despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that both the UN and the US government's own investigations label Libya as one of the most dangerous places on earth for migrant detainees.

theguardian.com/world/2025/may

US planning to deport migrants to Libya despite ‘hellish’ conditions – reports

"Human rights groups condemned the reported plans, noting the country’s poor record on human rights practices and harsh treatment of detainees.

“Migrants have long been trafficked, tortured and ransomed in Libya. The country is in a civil war. It is not a safe place to send anyone,” Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), wrote on X.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, wrote on the platform alongside a picture of a Libyan detention facility: “Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing.”

Reichlin-Melnick added: “Amnesty International called these places a ‘hellscape’ where beatings are common and sexual violence are rampant. There are reports of human trafficking and even slavery.”

Claudia Lodesani, head of programs for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said the group was “very concerned” about the possible consequences of such a plan, saying reports by media outlets and human rights organisations showed that “Libya is not a safe country for migrants”

Lodesani pointed to a 2023 United Nations report which documented “widespread practices of arbitrary detention, torture, rape and slavery and concluding there were grounds to believe a wide array of crimes against humanity have been committed against migrants in Libya.”

Reports on exactly how this objectively fascist scheme would work are currently sketchy, but given that the Trump regime's modus operandi has been to willfully break the law to violate the rights of migrants before anyone can tell them not to, and then claim what's done is done after the fact, this particular rumor and the lack of denial by the White House is pretty alarming. At this point it seems abundantly clear that the regime considers human rights violations and potentially lethal confinement conditions to be a feature, not a bug, in the places they're trying to send migrants; which tracks with the Pork Reich's discredited and debunked rhetoric about the effectiveness of intentional cruelty towards migrants as a "deterrent" across both of the Klepto Kaiser's administrations.

Unfortunately, we as a society that presumably doesn't want the government to traffic folks guilty of nothing more than a civil immigration violation to foreign torture prisons don't really have time to wait around for the regime to confirm their plans. As the article indicates, some sources claimed the first flights might occur as early as yesterday, so the time for the media and Trump's political opposition to pressure the regime on why it's even considering sending undocumented migrants and asylum seekers to a carceral state where murder, violence, and slavery reportedly awaits them, is right now. Given the response from the media, the judiciary, and society at large to the regime's El Salvador scheme, Trump and DHS officials have to know that they're not legally allowed to traffic abducted migrants to torture prisons in Libya either, so clearly the plan here is to do it fast and let the chips fall where they may; it makes no sense whatsoever to wait around until they actually do it before anyone tries to do anything about it.

The Guardian · US reportedly planning to deport migrants to Libya despite ‘clear’ violation of court orderBy Lorenzo Tondo
#Fascism#Trump#MigrantRights
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Every day, a fresh assault by this administration on what we used to think of ourselves as standing for. Which seemingly doesn’t want us to think of ourselves in those terms anymore. As aspiring authoritarians often don’t. Their power comes from shattering all former notions of yourself."

~ Matt Labash

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Libya
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mattlabash.substack.com/p/push

Slack Tide by Matt Labash · Push Back Against The MonstersBy Matt Labash
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Penal colonialism is entering its new golden age. For example, the nation of Rwanda seems to be setting up as a prison-state, the better to serve the needs of the US and the UK."

~ Crispin Sartwell

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Libya
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splicetoday.com/politics-and-m

Splice TodayMarco Rubio, Penal ColonialistDream big, America: the world’s our prison. || Crispin Sartwell
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