Deportees are being held in a converted shipping container in Djibouti, ICE says

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Ximena Bustillo

Bill Chappell

Camp Lemonnier uses stacks and rows of "Containerized Living Units," or CLUs, which the military likens to shipping containers, to house thousands of personnel at the U.S. base in Djibouti. A group of migrants is being held in a converted shipping container, according to court filings.

A group of deported migrants is living in a converted shipping container at a U.S. military base in Djibouti, a country in East Africa, where they are guarded around the clock by a small team of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to a Thursday court filing.