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5/6/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – 6 May 2020
11 FLIGHTS - 2 deportations. Honduras and Guatemala
Ø Today was a slower day yet 2 deportation flights and more shuffling.
Ø Today our friends in El Paso, Debbie Nathan and the El Paso Anti-Deportation Squad witnessed a flight from El Paso to Honduras. They saw about 23 deportees, men and women. We thank them for their witness and continuing to show ICE people are watching. It is their photo in today’s post. A woman.
Ø Today, Carlos Ernesto Escobar, a 57-year old man from El Salvador, who was being held at OTAY detention center died from COVID. He tested positive on April 24.
5/4/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – 4 May 2020
22 FLIGHTS - 5 DEPORTATION FLIGHTS
Ø Today was a breathtakingly busy day. We can only imagine how much COVID was seeded and spread by ICE Air today given the number of flights and geographies covered. To put today into perspective, today there were 5 deportation flights and all of last week there were 6. Today there were 22 flights, last week there were 59 for the full week. The next few days will be interesting.
Ø 7 ICE Air planes were in the air today and there were 5 deportation flights, the most in one day in about month. Deportations to Honduras (2), Ecuador, and Columbia, and Guatemala.
4/28/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – 28 APRIL 2020 (please share for transparency)
20 FLIGHTS
Ø Today we saw an amazing amount of churning of flights within the US and presumably detainees. Since ICE does not disclose the number of prisoners on their flights we are left to our educated guesses. When we see 3 and 4 legs of flights by the same plane there really is no explanation other than they are moving people around.
- Today we saw 1 plane fly 5 legs, and 3 planes fly 4 legs all within the US.
- Even the deportation flight to El Salvador made 2 legs in the US.
4/27/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – 24 APRIL 2020 (please share for transparency)
ICE Air is starting to get a lot more Media and Congressional attention now. We have had a number of inquiries. Keep sharing!
12 FLIGHTS 25 Ap – 27 April
ICE Air rarely flies on the weekend, but sometimes there are plane repositioning, returns and occasionally detainee flights. That was the case Saturday – Monday this week. Monday was actually a light day for flights. Because ICE discloses nothing about these flights, we are left to our own hypotheses. Perhaps Friday was such a large day they took a day of rest. Perhaps they are facing some pressure to suspend flights until they start testing. Or, maybe they are just positioning for a big day to come. We will witness.
4/24/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – 24 APRIL 2020
23 – Let that sink in 23 FLIGHTS TODAY
Ø ICE Air was incredibly mobile today. It makes us gasp at the thought of how much COVID was seeded and spread today alone. And it makes us wonder if ICE wanted to get as many deportations done before testing protocols are put in place (see last item below), or others suspend flights.
4/23/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – 23 APRIL 2020
14 FLIGHTS TODAY
Ø Today, in the midst of the greatest pandemic of our lifetimes, we sent 129 people, including 49 children, back to Haiti, the poorest country in this hemisphere and possibly one that is the most ill prepared to care for people with COVID. It is estimated Haiti only has 60 ventilators of which 20 may work for a population of 11 million people and only 124 ICU beds. Not long ago we sent 3 people back with COVID that represented 8% of Haiti’s cases at the time.
Ø Just this week, 164 humanitarian groups signed a letter pleading to stop deportations to Haiti because of the significant health risk. ICE was deaf to these pleas and continued to deport hate.
4/22/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – 22 APRIL 2020 (please share for transparency)
Ø Our deportation of COVID and hate continued today with the 8 flights as listed below. Fewer than yesterday’s 17, but still a great deal of shuffling around the US. Guatemala flights are still suspended.
Ø ICE detainees dropped again this week by about 1,500 to 30,737. The detainee population is dropping because people continue to be deported and those fleeing danger and violence are being flash returned under the CDC Order with zero opportunity to request asylum, or, effectively request any protected status. So far, over 11,000 people have been expelled, most by land as we understand, under the Order, including an estimated 400 unaccompanied children.
Ø So, deportation by air is only part of the story. One state in Mexico, Tampaulipus, reports 100 deportations per day by land. In Reynosa, on the border across from McAllen, TX, it was recently reported that 16 migrants with COVID were repatriated or deported (6 from Honduras; 3 from Cuba; 1 from Guatemala; 1 from Cameroon and 1 unknown).
