6/1/20
By Tom Cartwright
DEATH FLIGHTS – 1 June 2020
IN 2020 ICE AIR HAS FLOWN OVER 2,000 FLIGHTS IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC WITH EACH STOP AND TRANSFER A TIME TO SEED AND SPREAD COVID IN THE WORLD AND THE US.
MAY RECAP and 2020 THROUGH MAY RECAP
MAY
- 352 TOTAL FLIGHTS
- 61 DEPORTATIONS
- 58 DEPORTATION RETURNS
- 56 DEPORTATION CONNECTIONS IN THE US
- 177 SHUFFLE FLIGHTS MOVING DETAINEES BETWEEN DETENTION CENTERS
- DEPORTATIONS TO HONDURAS (23), MEXICO AND EL SALVADOR (8 EACH), GUATEMALA (7), BRAZIL (3),HAITI, DOMINICAN, ECUADOR, COLUMBIA, NICARAGUA (1 EACH).
2020 THROUGH MAY
- 2,031 TOTAL FLIGHTS
- 388 DEPORTATIONS
- 365 DEPORTATION RETURNS
- 271 DEPORTATION CONNECTIONS
- 1,006 SHUFFLE FLIGHTS MOVING DETAINEES BETWEEN DETENTION CENTERS
- DEPORTATIONS TO GUATEMALA (133), HONDURAS (111), EL SALVADOR (53), MEXICO (22), ECUADOR (20), HAITI AND BRAZIL (10 EACH), DOMINICAN (9), NICARAGUA (8), COLUMBIA (6), JAMAICA (4), BARBADOS AND PERU (1 EACH).
NEW REPORTING FRON ICE – TODAY THEY HAVE STARTED TO REPORT THOSE IN ISOLATION AND BEING MONITORED.
Ø 1,461 detainees have tested positive for COVID, up 5 today. 2,781 have been tested, no change today. 53% of those tested have been positive for COVID.
Ø New – 754 detainees are in isolation or are being monitored. That is 2.9% of detainees as of last Wednesday (25,911).
Here are the flights for today. The number behind the leg indicates a single individual planes path.
10 Flights Today
1 Deportation to Honduras. 2 Deportation Connections and 1 Deportation Review. 6 flights shuffling detainees around the US.
- MIAMI to COLUMBUS (GA) – 1
- COLUMBUS (GA) to HOUSTON – 1
- HOUSTON to HONDURAS - 1
- HONDURAS to MIAMI – 1
- ALEXANDRIA (LA) to HARRISBURG – 2
- HARRISBURG to BROWNSVILLE – 2
- BROWNSVILLE to ALEXANDRIA – 2
- BROWNSVILLE to COLUMBUS (GA) – 3
- COLUMBUS (GA) to BROWNSVILLE -3
- GREENSBORO to MILWAUKEE - 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.