Attorneys for two detainees said a Los Angeles construction worker from Vietnam was one of 13 immigrants called at 2:30 AM in a Texas detention facility last week and was forced into a vehicle at a Texas detention facility and told them they would be deported to Libya.

"It's very positive. They don't allow anything to do," said Thanh Nguyen, a lawyer for the men in Los Angeles.

According to the U.S. State Department, Libya is a politically unstable country in North Africa and is plagued by “terrorism, unexploded mines, civil unrest, kidnapping and armed conflict.” Human rights groups have documented the inhumane conditions in detention centers and immigration camps, including torture, forced labour and rape.

The construction worker has a criminal conviction in the record,,,,, Has lived in the United States for decades and has a wife and teenage daughter. Two months ago, he was arrested after appearing in court at the annual immigration office in Los Angeles office, then rushed to various detention centers before reaching the South Texas Ice Processing Center in Pearsall.

In the early hours of May 7, he took the detention center from the south by bus on a bus that might be Lachland Air Force Base. From there, he and the rest of the group sat on the apron in the darkness before dawn for hours, unsure what would happen. The lawyer said the people were from Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Mali, Burundi, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico and the Philippines. No one comes from Libya.

“My client and everyone else on the bus remain silent,” Ngain said in court filings. “My clients are very scared.”

The aircraft hatch is open. Military personnel were busy in and out, seemingly bringing supplies and refueling the plane. The photographer positioned himself in front of a military plane.

"Suddenly, the bus started driving and returned to the detention center," said Johnny Sinodis, the attorney for another detainee, a Filipino who grew up to attend college in the United States and also had a criminal conviction.

Massachusetts U.S. District Court Judge Brian E. Murphy issued a warning to the government to stop any immediate removal to Libya or any other third country because it would violate a previous court order that officials must provide appropriate procedures for detainees and notify them in their own language. After media reports confirmed what their clients told them, lawyers scrambled to get orders: a move to Libya seems to be coming.

Sinodis said his client and others were sent back to the detention center and were in solitary confinement for 24 hours.

He said in his announcement that his clients spoke to Mexicans and Bolivians in the organization. Everyone was told their country would accept them, but officials still said they would send them to Libya.

The incident happened a week and attorneys said they were still working to prevent clients from deportation.

The Trump administration deported hundreds of most Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador, invoking wartime laws to quickly remove them. Their deportation posed a direct challenge and became the most controversial part of the migrant repression. Officials also sent people to Panama, which was not from that country.

Rwanda's foreign minister said in a television interview this month that talks were being held with U.S. officials to accept deported immigrants.

It is unclear how Libya becomes a possible destination for immigration. Both governments claim power in the United States. The Tripoli-based government of National Unity has denied any agreement with the Trump administration. Benghazi-based national stability government also declined to report that it would allow deportees.

The UN Human Rights Office said Tuesday it had information that at least 100 Venezuelans held at the El Salvador giants had not been told that they would be deported to a third country, had no access to lawyers, and could not challenge the removal.

"This situation has raised serious concerns about the broad rights that are crucial to the United States and international law," the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a statement. "The way some people are detained and deported (including the use of shackles on it) and derogatory remarks against immigrants are also disturbing."

Sinodis said his client had been detained for several months and was told he would be deported to the Philippines in late April. But that month, he moved from the Northwest Ice Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington to Texas. A Tacoma official told him that the decision to move him there was from “headquarters”, court documents show.

On May 5, he plans to be interviewed by two Texas immigrant and customs law enforcement officers. He hopes to know his eviction date. Instead, they handed him a page of documents saying he would be deported to Libya. Zhongzheng said he was shocked.

The man asked the officer if he or his attorney could do anything to avoid this. They said no.

Nguyen said his clients don't speak English fluently and had similar experiences on the same day. The officer handed him a document in English, and they said they could be free in Libya. He didn't even know where Libya was and refused to sign the documents. The officer told him that no matter what he did, he would be deported.

Sinodis said the next day, his client's commissions and phone accounts were zeroed.

When asked about Libya, Sinodis finally arrived at an officer in the detention center, who told him "this is crazy." He said his clients must have been unfortunate. But his client grew up on the West Coast and spoke fluent English.

Then, as things went on, the lawyer arrived at another official at the facility on May 7, saying he had no information that the man was going to Libya and handed him over to an official in Tacoma. The supervisor downplayed the situation.

"I can assure you that this is not an emergency, because there is no emergency," the court document said.

Shortly after noon that day, an officer from a detention center determined that he was Garza and told him that he was investigating it, but so far he had been told why his client was informed, but he also could not guarantee that it did not happen.

Less than an hour later, his client called and told him that he had been taken to the air base. He said he saw the same officer who interviewed him when he was pulled out of his cell early in the morning and asked him to sign the deletion of the documents.

"He asked the officer, 'Are we going to Libya again?" he said. “They said yes.”