2025 At the end of June a demand (archived) The bodies with arms and feet were distributed on the Internet, tied to the shores of the Spanish Balearic Islands, there were people What Trump’s administration was deported from the US
One “Tikatok” user said:
You can’t find it strangely suspicious? Does a number of American news companies or outlet report that bodies wash the shores where their hands are stacked and the legs are stacked? Whose hands and feet are planned because they are currently boarding the US?
The claim was especially (archived) Popular (archived) on the tiking. There, users presented news articles next to 2025. In January, about the flights of the floating migrants’ deportation and the washing bodies (archived) in Mallorca in June of that year, mentioning the relationships between them. The claim also appeared on Facebook (archived)Thread (archived)X (archived) and Reddit (archived);
However, we did not find evidence that the bodies in the Balearic Islands were people deported from the US, and we also found no evidence that US authorities helped to deport people to Balearics. Spanish authorities have not yet determined dead at the time of this writing. But we could not find evidence USA Customs and Immigration (ICE) deportation flights to Spain, although Trump’s administration operated several flights to several African nations. People who migrate from Africa often try to move to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea, ends with islands like Balearics.
The White House spokeswoman, Abigail Jackson, dismissed the entire claim by email. Email: “This claim is so stupid and obviously wrong that it is hardly hard to confuse the answer.”
We applied to the ICE to ask for his remarks on the claim and whether he was in 2025. January Any deportation flights to Europe were held. We also appealed to the Spanish Civil Guard and the Balearic Government Delegation, which owns the Balearic Islands, including Mallorca to support this statement whether they were identified from Spanish reports on how people who deported the US or confirmed this statement. We look forward to answers to your questions.
A claim based on elements for months except
The claim seemed to be based on the alleged link between images (archived), which was published by the White House Secretary Caroline Leavitt from a deportation flight in 2025. January, and news articles on bodies with tied hands and feet were washed on beaches on the beaches on beaches in June.
Leavitt images showed people whose hands and feet were directed to the people of the C-17 Global Global Loading Airplane. Leavitt wrote: “President Trump sends a strong and clear message to the world: if you are unlawfully coming to the United States, you will have serious consequences.” At the time, Reuters reported that the flight was bound by Guatemalas, referring to an unnamed administration officer. According to reports, Shackling people are a common ice practice for deportation flights. We asked ICE to confirm it and wait for the answer.
Then, 2025. In June, about several bodies that washed on the balear holiday islands Ibiza and Formentera, hands and feet, tied.
The Spanish Civil Guard has opened an investigation into the deaths of deaths suspected as murder. According to local reports, officials regained the first bound body in 2025. May 18 According to the local newspaper Diari de Mallorca, at least five bound bodies were washed on the beaches of the Balear Islands by the end of June. Other reports have not been submitted.
Police suspected that deaths were related to human smuggling and migrants trying to move to Europe from North Africa. June 30 Ibiza’s authorities said the police thought the deceased was “In the boat that arrived in Alicante, “by Local messages;
The reports do not state that the deceased suspected officers were migrants deported from the US identification.
Migrant boats crossings from North Africa to the Balearic Islands are a common case, as is the deaths on this route. By United Nations Chief Commissioner RefugeesMore than 2,700 migrants who came to the sea to the Balearic Islands from 2025. January Until June 22 The Spanish authorities often go to rescue the migrant’s suffering at sea.
When planning US deportation flights
ICE does not publicly announce all deportation flights and travel lists. Therefore, it was not possible to confirm from its data whether it was carrying out deportation flights to Spain or the Balearic Islands, which could have been used to wash people there.
According to Human Rights Defender Tom Cartwright, who follows flights to ice deportation, ICE performed 3,889 deportation flights from 2025. May By the end of May. Although none of these flights to Spain, the Cartwright list included African countries such as Mauritania, Senegal, Liberia, Liberia, Kenya and Angola. It is possible that people deported to these destinations may try to migrate to Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. However, without Baliet islands, it was impossible to say whether it was.
Snopes did not independently confirm Cartwright data, although the news organization and defense groups recognized its database as the most comprehensive publicly available.
In conclusion, it was not possible to confirm that the bodies that washed the shore in the Balearic Islands were people exiled from the US, we found no evidence that the ice was running deportation flights to Spain or the Balearic Islands. It is possible that migrants, deported to African nations, have been able to try to move to Europe across the Mediterranean, but we have not found that evidence.
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