Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight

[Danmel]

Source: New York Times

The Trump administration is planning to transport a group of immigrants to Libya on a U.S. military plane, according to U.S. officials, another sharp escalation in a deportation program that has sparked widespread legal challenges and intense political debate.

The nationalities of the migrants were not immediately clear, but a flight to Libya carrying the deportees could leave as soon as Wednesday, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation.

The decision to send deportees to Libya was striking. The country is racked with conflict, and human rights groups have called conditions in its network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

The Libya operation falls in line with the Trump administration’s effort to not only deter migrants from trying to enter the country illegally but also to send a strong message to those in the country illegally that they can be deported to countries where they could face brutal conditions. Reuters earlier reported the possibility of a U.S. deportation flight to Libya.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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[Attilatheblond]

1. How is this not human trafficking?

Is this a new venture for Trump, slave trade?

[Eugene]

8. Slavery is exactly what happens to many migrants in Libya.

One of the few more dangerous place on Earth they could have picked is Sudan. They asked and Sudan said no.

[Deuxcents]

2. Do these people have connections with Libya..relatives? How are they to survive..do they know the language?

What is the purpose of sending people to war torn countries? This is inhumane

[Danmel]

4. Also considering Rwanda

Rwanda in 'early stages' of talks with U.S. to take in deported migrants https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5387506/rwanda-talks-us-deportation-migrants

[Martin68]

3. Great plan. Send migrants to certain death in a totally anarchic society with no connection to here they came from.

Madness.

[Bayard]

7. Doubtful anyone will even speak their language,

Added to no money, no food, no place to stay, no job.

If he's still claiming he has the right to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act because we are, "at war," with them, then he is committing war crimes.

[JBTaurus83]

5. I'd really like to know

How this is legal, and if it is not, these judges need to start holding people in the admin in contempt .

[Ms. Toad]

6. I hope that now that more details are known that litigation can put a quick hold on it. n/t

[Grins]

9. Libya. Imagine Ronald Reagan hearing this!

A country he bombed for their terrorism and murder of US citizens.

[bdamomma]

10. Libya?????

WTF!! Human Trafficking is correct. I guess sending people to blue states and Martha's Vineyard is a thing of the past,

Such bastards. Stephen Miller and Homan little Nazi's.

[Fla Dem]

11. Trump is the Devil Incarnate

"Devil incarnate" a figurative expression meaning someone who is exceptionally evil or the embodiment of evil.