On 15 May, The Intercept published a report by Nick Turse and Jonah Valdez, titled ‘Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE’. According to the report, Libya is one of 19 nations the U.S. is in talks with to accept deportees from other countries. The authors argue that the Trump administration is seeking more far-flung locales to hold deported people, regardless of their countries of origin. They also speak to anonymous sources, who confirm that the Trump administration is planning a major increase in deportation flights in coming weeks to destinations across the globe.
Read the full report here.