5/11/20

By Tom Cartwright

DEATH FLIGHTS – 11 May 2020

20 Flights today – 4 deportation flights – Honduras (2), Guatemala, Haiti.

- Along with the 4 deportations there were 6 legs in the US that connected to the last deportation leg. And still, 6 flights in shuffling people around the US as the COVID shell game continues.

Ø Today The flight to Guatemala that was expected based on Friday that was cancelled was completed. We still do not know why it was cancelled Friday but perhaps they did not have enough people tested for COVID that were negative prepared. Guatemala is the only country that will not accept deportees without medical papers indicating they were just tested and did not have COVID. Somehow, they are apparently withstanding the administrations pressure. Today Michelle Hackman of the WSJ reported on White House threats to withhold visas to countries not accepting deportees in the midst of the pandemic. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-threatens-to-deny-visas-to-countries-refusing-deported-citizens-11586577586?reflink=share_mobilewebshare

Ø Today there was also deportation flight to Haiti, the poorest country in our hemisphere and one that has scant medical resources to treat COVID patients. 11 million people, densely populated, dependent on an estimated 20 working (80 total) ventilators and 125 ICU beds. Advocates have pleaded to stop these flights. Ignored.

- And today it was reported by Monique O. Madan of the Miami Herald that there would be 5 deportees who said they had tested positive for COVID. The Haiti Presidential Committee on Sunday night recommended against accepting any additional flights and the naked transparency and what the Herald uncovered no doubt played into aborting today’s exportation of COVID AND THE SAVING OF LIVES.

This is the power of the press and the power of advocacy and witness. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article242645496.html

Ø And we are only seeing the tip pf the spear of infections in detention centers that feed the COVID exporting ICE Air. Only 1,686 detainees have been tested, barely 6% of the population. And terrifyingly, of those tested 47% (800) have been positive for COVID.

Here are the flights for today. The number behind the leg indicates a single individual planes path.

- BROWNSVILLE to HOUSTON – 1

- HOUSTON to GUATEMALA – 1

- GUATEMALA to BROWNSVILLE – 1

- ALEXANDRIA (LA) to HARRISBURG – 2

- HARRISBURG to BROWNSVILLE – 2

- BROWNSVILLE to ALEXANDRIA (LA) – 2

- BROWNSVILLE to JACKSONVILLE – 3

- JACKSONVILLE to COLUMBUS (GA) – 3

- COLUMBUS (GA) to BROWNSVILLE – 3

- SAN ANTONIO to DALLAS – 4

- DALLAS to ALEXANDRIA (LA) – 4

- ALEXANDRIA to HONDURAS – 4

- HONDURAS to SAN ANTONIO – 4

- ALEXANDRIA (LA) to SAN ANTONIO - 5

- SAN ANTONIO to HAITI – 5

- HAITI to ALEXANDRIA (LA) - 5

- MIAMI – COLUMBUS (GA) - 6

- COLUMBUS (GA) to HOUSTON - 6

- HOUSTON to HONDURAS – 6

- HONDURAS to MIAMI - 6

Note: ICE Air does not disclose their flights. Flight listing gleaned from public flight information, knowledge of detention center locations, air charter services and historic patterns. In rare cases, there may be a flight we miss, or include in error.