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6/27/21
ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 28 June 2021. Photo – Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The last 4 weeks have been very consistent in activity.
8 removal flights this week, 1 less than last week, and what seems to be a new normal. Removals to 7 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.
6/18/21
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.