ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
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Todd M. Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wrote in a memo to the ICE workforce Wednesday that a
Supreme Court ruling last month had cleared the way for officers to “immediately” start sending immigrants to “alternative” countries.
People being sent to countries where officials have not provided any “diplomatic assurances” that immigrants will be safe will be informed 24 hours in advance — and in “exigent” circumstances, just six. Those being flown to places that have offered those assurances could be deported with no advance notice….”