ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents appear to have worked directly with government officials in Iran to deport over 100 Iranian nationals as the United States prepared to bomb their home country, according to a newly released trove of internal emails from ICE. In the process, immigration officials indicate they complied with an Iranian request to repatriate three specific people who were living in the United States.
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Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents appear to have worked directly with government officials in Iran to deport over 100 Iranian nationals as the United States prepared to bomb their home country, according to a newly released trove of internal emails from ICE. In the process, immigration officials indicate they complied with an Iranian request to repatriate three specific people who were living in the United States. Hundreds of emails spanning from May to November of last year show ICE officials, operating under the orders of then-Acting Director Todd Lyons, scrambling to put together plans for three controversial charter flights to Iran in the clearest picture yet of the Trump administration’s behind-the-scenes planning for the trips. The flights delivered more than 100 people to an uncertain fate in Tehran just months or weeks before the U.S.
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