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Open Letter to the Denver City Council
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.
Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city
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.
ICE charter Eastern Airlines lands in Cameroon & Ghana; third-country ‘deportation’ likely
It was the first apparent ICE charter flight to Africa for the Kansas City-based airline and also stopped in Ghana.
The Private Jet to Hell, One Year Later
The Trump regime tried to take eight migrants to a prison in South Sudan via private jet without anyone noticing.
EXCLUSIVE: ICE expels three more third-country ‘deportees’ to Equatorial Guinea
Third-country removals to Cameroon and Ghana may have also occurred on the same ICE flight.
Public outcry vs. ‘public servants’: MN airport officials ignore community demands on Delta ICE flights, approve luxury lounge plan
“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.
ICE charter lands in Congo carrying 15 Latin American migrants
The Democratic Republic of Congo becomes the eighth African nation known to have taken third-country nationals from the Trump administration.
Water is wet, and DHS’s ‘deportation fleet’ boondoggle expands under Markwayne
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.
Three craven ICE flights
An apparent ICE flight to Myanmar, a third-country removal to Uganda, and another African country joins the list of collaborator “hosts.”
‘Extremely dangerous’ reassignment of TSA’s federal air marshals for ICE flights more widespread than previously known
Hundreds of air marshals, who are supposed to protect commercial air travel, have replaced ICE agents on deportation flights since last summer.
More MAGA billionaires linked to private jet used for ICE flight to African prison
A Gulfstream jet that appears to be co-owned by Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi flew four migrants to a prison in Eswatini.
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Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center
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.
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Noem got canned, but all the DHS jets she bought are flying high
Disgraced DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is still using one of the luxury jets she bought with taxpayer dollars, and ICE’s new “deportation fleet” completed their first flights – getting Americans out of a warzone Trump created.
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Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg
Kristi Noem’s DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.
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ICE deportation flight leaves NH after 31 hours, exposes chronic problems
Local officials, activists and a former Omni flight attendant slammed the airline and ICE's decision not to cancel the scheduled deportation.
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Deportees remain at NH airport after being stuck on blizzard-grounded ICE plane for 14 hours
The Omni jet holding deportees, federal agents, and ICE-contracted guards left Harlingen, Tx., Sunday night, likely bound for Asia.
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ICE flight refuels in Ireland again before landing in Egypt; Irish activist pressed police to investigate
MAGA billionaire’s jet also did another ICE flight, to Sierra Leone.
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Air Wisconsin has done 60+ ICE flights since mid-January
Dozens of secret flights carrying shackled migrants follow Air Wisconsin’s sale to ICE’s flight broker.
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More on Omni’s ICE Flights
How to help the deported people in my Mother Jones story, and which blue states have public funds and public-employee funds invested in ICE flights.
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Tracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country Removals
Bookmark this post, it will be updated.
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EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known
Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals.
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NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry
Details of how the five men got to Eswatini have not been previously reported.