5/8/20

By Tom Cartwright

DEATH FLIGHTS – 8 May 2020

Ø 11 Flights with 2 deportations – Honduras and El Salvador. And 9 shuffling.

Ø 72 Flights for the week:

- 13 Deportations – Honduras (5), Guatemala (2), El Salvador (2,) Dominican, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru

- 10 that connected to deportation flights

- 13 Return from deportations

- 36 Shuffle in the US flights

Ø We anticipated another Guatemala flight today because the Guatemalan Government announced there would be 3 with about 75 people per flight all of whom were to be tested and have medical papers indicating negative. Today that flight was cancelled with no explanation. However, it was reported that they tested 10 people at random from Monday’s flight and 1 person had COVID. So, it could be they said no more until they can trust no one will have COVID, but we really do not know. We will witness next week.

- It was also reported that 4 minors deported from Mexico to Guatemala by bus had COVID. Guatemala is testing all minors before reuniting with families.

Ø The risk of seeding and spreading COVID continues to increase as detention centers become more infected. And testing is still dangerously limited. Only 1,593 of the 28,900 detainees have been tested. And of those 788 have tested positive, or 49%. Yet, we continue to deport to countries that are ill equipped to handle the medical emergency. And, just as bad, continue the shell game of death moving around in the US.

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

- El Paso to Alexandria (LA) – 1

- Alexandria (LA) to El Salvador - 1

- El Salvador to Phoenix – 1

- San Antonio to Brownsville – 2

- Brownsville to Honduras – 2

- Honduras to San Antonio – 2

- Lima to Honduras – Return from yesterday -3

- Honduras to Alexandria (LA) – 3

- Brownsville to Gary – 4

- Gary to Alexandria (LA) - 4

- Alexandria to Brownsville - 4

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.