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6/18/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 14 June 2021.
Photo - Reynosa Mexico Plaza - migrant camp spawned by the Administrations continuation of Trump's illegal Title 42.
9 removal flights this week, just 1 more than last week, and what seems to be a new normal. Removals to 6 countries. As has been in most of the recent weeks, the majority of removal flights are on Friday, following the shuffle flights moving people around detention centers and staging people for removal.
6/12/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 7 June 2021.
8 removal flights this week, same as last week, the lowest since 8 the week of 12 April. Removals to 5 countries. As has been in most of the recent weeks, the majority of removal flights are on Friday, following the shuffle flights moving people around detention centers and staging people for removal.
It continues to appears that the only removal flights to the Northern triangle countries and Nicaragua are deportation flights.
98 total flights were the most if 5 weeks driven by 79 shuffle flights, the most in the last 6 weeks.
6/6/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 31 May 2021. (photo – the growing migrant camp in Reynosa MX. Migration continues. Close 1 camp in Matamoros and another arises 30 miles away at a Port of Entry.)
8 removal flights this week were the lowest since 8 the week of 12 April. Only 6 countries and to be transparent one to Guyana could have been a fuel stop on the way to Brazil, but we included in the removal count.
65 total flights was the lowest number since the 58 the week of 1 March, the week before the 14 per week lateral flights began.
5/23/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 17 May 2021.
After 5 weeks of significantly elevated flights, driven 14 lateral flights per week plus their connections and returns, this is the second week at a new normal. Total flights at 89 including 12 removal flights.
Removal flights were very dispersed this week to 9 different countries which is unusual in one week. Central America, South America and the Caribbean all represented.
Friday 7 May was the last of the lateral flights to date with one from Yuma to El Paso.
5/16/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 10 May 2021. (photo El Paso TX mural)
After 5 weeks of significantly elevated flights, driven 14 lateral flights per week plus their connections and returns, this week total flights fell to 73 as lateral flights were suspended. I won’t say stopped as ICE can change operations quickly.
Friday 7 May was the last of the lateral flights to date with one from Yuma to El Paso.
5/10/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 3 May 2021.
Flights of 98 for the week down from the record 119 of last week and 2 above prior 6-week average. BUT well over the March weekly average of 75 and significantly over February at 44 per week.
Shuffle flights remained at elevated levels resulting from continuing, but modified, lateral flights to El Paso for Expulsion into Juarez. There were 2 lateral flights from Brownsville and 7 from Yuma. 8 arrived for expulsions in El Paso and only 1 in San Diego this week. The week of 8 March, 14 Lateral flights went to El Paso from Brownsville, and between then and this week 1 flight per day went to El Paso and 1 to San Diego from Brownsville.
5/2/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 26 April 2021. (Photo: Plane in El Paso on 29 April with children to be detained at Ft. Bliss - Tom Cartwright)
Second highest number of weekly flights over past 12 months at 119 (ti2 weeks at 126).
Second highest number of weekly shuffle flights since recording 1/1/2020 at 97.
Removal flights remain low at 9, which is becoming the new normal now. The prior 6-week average is now 9. In February it was about 16 and in January closer to 20.
Domestic shuffle flights close to the record level of 104 at 97.
4/24/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 19 April 2021: RECORD WEEK.
Highest number of weekly flights over past 12 months at 126 (tied week of 10/25/2020).
Record High number of weekly shuffle flights since recording 1/1/2020 at 104.
Removal flights remain low at 9, which is becoming the new normal now. The prior 6-week average is now 9. In February it was about 16 and in January closer to 20.
4/10/21
**ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 5 April 2021. **
Removal flights remain low at 10, which is becoming the new normal now. The prior 6-week average is now 11. The last 6 weeks have been significantly lower than the prior typical week of 18-20 removal flights.
If someone knows who made this image, please let us know. Hauntingly beautiful.
3/22/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 15 March 2021. (photo Reuters)
Removal flights at 9 at extremely low level. Lowest since the week of 26 April 2020 at 6.
Dramatic change with no flights to Mexico. First time there have been no flights since May 2020. In January 237 flights, In February 24. We have a question to ICE to see if that was a US or MX decision. All it means is that more are expelled by land across the border.
Domestic shuffle flights still elevated at 64, of which 31, almost half were related to the “lateral” flights from Brownsville to El Paso and San Diego each day (including weekends), some of which originated in San Antonio.
3/15/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 8 March 2021.
Monday started the 2 per day flights from Brownsville to El Paso, and several originated in San Antonio accounting for 13 of the 66 shuffle flights.
Although initially the implication seemed to be to shelters in El Paso that the 270 people a day on the 2 flights were going to be released to them, we were always suspicious of that conclusion. It appears that some of the people on those planes are being expelled into MX from El Paso. Especially worrisome is if families are flown there for expulsion because MX won’t receive them in Tamaulipas, but will in Chihuahua.
