This is ICE Flight Tracker, a new weekly review of ICE flights, third-country removals, who's profiting, and what you can do. Five weeks ago, I dashed off an anxious (and semi-embarrassing) Bluesky post about not being able to make a living as an independent journalist covering
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ICE charter airline Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a contract to operate a fleet of passenger jets acquired by the Department of Homeland Security to conduct deportation and removal flights. The contract, worth up to $327 million, is for the Kansas City-based airline
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At least some of the flights were third-country removals, human rights group says.
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Video shows 11 exhausted and shackled people arrive back at ICE camp airport 15 hours after they left.
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Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.
On Friday, July 17, I was invited to speak at the Chicago city council's Committee for Immigrant and Refugee Rights meeting, capping off a flurry of activity with Chicagoland folks recently. As you may have seen in the news, the company that owns the city's parking
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In the ongoing saga of DHS’s “deportation fleet,” Bloomberg gets the facts vaguely right and story all wrong.
Trump's ICE has expelled an estimated 22,000 people to countries where they have no ties. Find out where they are going, what happens to them, and who profits.
Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.
Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers’ noses.
Kristi Noem’s DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.
Time is neutral. History isn’t.
Trump's ICE has expelled an estimated 22,000 people to countries where they have no ties. Find out where they are going, what happens to them, and who profits.
Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.
Denver's city council will soon vote on a measure holding a local ICE air charter accountable. I wanted to make sure they had accurate and up-to-date information.
Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.
It was the first apparent ICE charter flight to Africa for the Kansas City-based airline and also stopped in Ghana.
The Trump regime tried to take eight migrants to a prison in South Sudan via private jet without anyone noticing.
Third-country removals to Cameroon and Ghana may have also occurred on the same ICE flight.
“You have a chance in a few minutes to act courageously, to do the right thing,” an activist told airport officials. They didn't appreciate the reminder.
The Democratic Republic of Congo becomes the eighth African nation known to have taken third-country nationals from the Trump administration.
DHS under the former “Senate’s Stupidest” Markwayne Mullin is still buying more planes for a supposed “deportation fleet” that only seems to fly around MAGA VIPs.
An apparent ICE flight to Myanmar, a third-country removal to Uganda, and another African country joins the list of collaborator “hosts.”
Hundreds of air marshals, who are supposed to protect commercial air travel, have replaced ICE agents on deportation flights since last summer.