TELL CONGRESS: Trump’s masked ICE agents are picking people off the street and deporting
them to American-sponsored detention centers in foreign countries. It’s
all blatantly unconstitutional — Congress must rein in the out of control
ICE. Sign the petition: Stop ICE’s human trafficking and indefinite detention of immigrants in
foreign prisons.
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When secret police in masks jump out of unmarked vehicles, handcuff
someone, and take them to an undisclosed location to detain them
indefinitely, that’s not law enforcement. It’s kidnapping.
That’s what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are now
doing everyday on the streets of American cities. When the administration
then sends the people they’ve kidnapped to a foreign country, the practice
escalates to human trafficking.^1
From El Salvador and South Sudan to Angola, Uzbekistan, and at least 16
other countries, ICE is creating a global pipeline of American-sponsored
detention centers in countries often notorious for violence and human
rights violations.^2
The Constitution is clear: Everyone is entitled to due process in a court
of law, and even those convicted of crimes must not endure cruel and
unusual punishment. Congress must put an end to these horrific, illegal
renditions.
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Congress must stop ICE’s human trafficking and
indefinite detention of immigrants in foreign prisons.
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Those sent to these overseas prisons have no idea how long they may remain
incarcerated in a country that is not their home.
Documents show that more than 71 percent of current ICE detainees have no
criminal conviction, yet that didn’t stop ICE from trafficking detainees
to CECOT, the infamous Salvadoran torture prison where it’s been said “the
only way out is in a coffin.”
Congressional pressure has already resulted in the release of one person
from CECOT: Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, was returned to the United
States after Sen. Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador to meet with him.
But that’s not enough. Congress must use every tool at its disposal to put
an end to the administration’s illegal deportations — and not stop until
every deported person wrongly imprisoned in a foreign country is brought
home.
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Stop ICE from sending people to foreign prisons! Thanks for taking action,
Joey and the Demand Progress team
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Sources:
1. The Intercept, "ICE Said They Were Being Flown to Louisiana. Their
Flight Landed in Africa,” [ [link removed] ]July 8, 2025.
2. Guardian, “US completes deportation of eight men to South Sudan after
legal wrangling,” [ [link removed] ]July 7, 2025.
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