Breaking down claim bodies of Trump admin deportees washed up in Spain
At the end of June 2025, claim (archived) The bodies were washed on the shores of Spain’s Balear Islands online. to who? Trump administration was deported from the USA
A tiktok user said:
Can’t you find a suspicion in a strange way? An American news company or Outlet’s bodies of the bodies chained and their feet were washed on the shores where they were chained? Who is chained in the United States when you ride something in the United States?
Claim especially (archived) popular (archived) Tiktok. There, users presented news articles side by side deportation flights Chained immigrants in January 2025 connected bodies (archived) In June that year, he washing in Mallorca in June and points to the connections between the two. The claim also appeared Facebook (archived)– Threads (archived)– X (archived) And Reddit (archived).
However, we could not find any evidence that the bodies on the Balear Islands were deported people from the United States, and we could not find any evidence that US officials placed people deported to Balearlar. Spanish authorities have not yet defined dead During this article. But we could not find proof WE Customs and Immigration Practice (ICE) Flights to deportation to Spain, but the Trump administration made flights to several African countries. People who migrate from Africa often try to cross Europe via the Mediterranean and end on the islands like ballets.
The White House spokesman Abigail Jackson completely rejected the claim and wrote through E -Post, “This claim is so stupid and clearly worshiped at all.”
We have reached the ICE to ask his comments about the claim and whether he had made any deportation flights to Europe since January 2025. In addition, we have reached the Balear Government delegation, which ruled the Balear Islands, including Mallorca, to ask whether they had defined and defined any of those who died from the US or the people they supported. We are waiting for answers to our queries.
The demand built on elements between months of months
The claim seemed to be based on a alleged connection between images (archived) White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, from the deportation flight in January 2025 and news articles About the bodies with hands and feet washed on the beaches on the Balear Islands in June.
Leavitt’s images, chain hands and feet showed that people were directed to a C-17 Globemaster cargo aeroplane. “President Trump sends a strong and clear message to the world: If you enter the United States illegally, you will encounter serious consequences,” Leavitt said. Reuters reported Referring to an anonymous administrative authority, when the flight was connected to Guatemala. Accordingly reportsChaining people in deportation flights is common ice application. We asked him to confirm this from the ice and wait for an answer.
Then, in June 2025, reports wandered about A lot The bodies were washed on the shores of Ibiza and Formentera’s Balear holiday islands, their hands and feet are connected.
Spanish civilian guard launched an investigation into deaths, suspicious To be murder during this article. Accordingly local reportsThe authorities rescued the first affiliated organ on 18 May 2025. newspaperUntil the end of June, at least five connected corpses were washed on Balear Island beaches. Other reports did not provide total.
Police suspected that deaths were linked to smuggling and immigrants to immigrants trying to cross North Africa to Europe. On June 30, the authorities in Ibiza said that the police believe that the deceased person “On a boat coming to Alicante, ” local reports.
The reports did not show that the deceased person suspected of the deceased, the deportation of the US identity work continued.
Migrant boat transitions from North Africa to Balear Islands are a widespread event like deaths on this route. Accordingly United Nations High Commissioner RefugeesBetween January 2025 and 22 June, more than 2,700 immigrants came to the Balear Islands by sea. Spanish officials often to enter To save immigrants in trouble at sea.
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ICE does not publicly publish the full lists of deportation flights and destinations. For this reason, it was not possible to confirm whether it was deported to Spain or the Balear Islands, and it was not possible to confirm from its own data that could cause deported people to wash there.
According to Tom Cartwright, a human rights advocate following the deportation flights of ice deportation, 3.889 on ice deportation flights Between January and the end of May 2025. Although none of these flights appear in Spain, Cartwright’s list included African countries such as Mauritania, Senegal, Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya and Angola. It was possible for people who were deported to these destinations to try to emigrate to Europe through the Mediterranean. However, it was impossible to say whether the situation was like this without the identification of the corpses washed on the Balear Islands.
Snopes did not independently confirm Cartwright’s data news organizations and advocacy group They have accepted the database as the most complete public.
In summary, during this article, it was not possible to verify whether the bodies were destroyed on the Balear Islands were people who were deported from the United States, and we could not find any evidence that ICE made deportation flights to Spain or Balear Islands. It was possible for immigrants who were deported to African countries to try to cross Europe through the Mediterranean, but we could not find evidence of this.
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