The eight migrants — who have been convicted of murder, sexually assaulting minors, robbery and arson, among other crimes — are being housed in a Conex shipping container on a US naval base in the African country and are watched around the clock by the team of ICE officers.

Pentagon officials warned ICE after the team’s arrival that Camp Lemonnier is at risk of rocket strikes from Houthi terrorists across the Red Sea in Yemen, while the officers have also been exposed to toxic smog from nearby burn pits where locals dispose of trash and human waste.

Following a late May order by Boston US District Judge Brian Murphy, the officers had to land the flight carrying the migrants in East Africa without taking any anti-malaria medication — which was not provided until more than two days after they arrived.

Some “began to feel ill within 72 hours of landing in Djibouti,” a Department of Homeland Security source told The Post.

A flight nurse was able to later find some anti-malaria medication, though the supply has been limited.

In addition, the officers are the only federal personnel authorized to escort the migrants to the bathroom and pat them down for weapons and contraband, and the grueling ordeal has required them to be relieved by fill-in teams periodically.

“It is outrageous that this judge is putting the health and safety of law enforcement officers at risk for the sake of criminals,” the source said.

Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, ordered the flight grounded May 22 when he ruled that the Trump administration had “unquestionably” violated a March court order pausing migrant removals to countries from where they do not originate.

Each migrant should be given written notice and offered a chance to object to their deportation, Murphy also ordered.

Only one of the eight migrants put on the flight was a native of war-torn South Sudan, while the others came from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar and Vietnam.

A Trump administration official previously claimed the deportees’ crimes were so “monstrous and barbaric” that no other country would take them.

The migrants stranded with the ICE officers include:

All eight were either given final removal orders or did not appeal their initial deportation order following a conviction, the DHS source noted.

The migrants stranded with the ICE officers include:

The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the Murphy’s decision, but no action has yet been taken.

“This case addresses the government’s ability to remove some of the worst of the worst illegal immigrants,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in an emergency appeal to the high court on May 27.

“The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove.”

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