On Monday, as my American Prospect story about Avelo's dangerous flights rattled around the internet, I was sitting in a parking lot near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, hoping to catch a glimpse of an incoming ICE flight. While I waited, I found out the passengers onboard were
Immigration and Custom Enforcement sent charter planes to Gary/Chicago International Airport five times this week, the most "round-up" flights in one place I've observed since I started tracking ICE flights. What could explain this huge increase? I briefly wondered. ICE's Operation Midway Blitz(
ICE Air seemed to be slowing down at the beginning of the week, with fewer planes doing fewer flights each day, leading activist flight trackers and me to wonder if the government shutdown was finally catching up to the authoritarian state. After all, the federal contract for ICE flights appears
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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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Details of how the five men got to Eswatini have not been previously reported.
On Tuesday afternoon, when news broke that at least two immigrants in DHS custody were being deported to South Sudan, I hopped onto the flightradar24 app to see if I could find the plane. I am a former flight attendant, a journalist, and a bit of an av geek (I&
I thought of this poster last night as I read journalist Bill Shaner's account of the kidnapping of a woman from her neighborhood in Worcester, Mass. In video taken by Shaner and others, Worcester police hold back a crowd attempting to the stop the abduction by federal officers
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Why are they still so bad at this.
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