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6/27/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – ICE ACCELERATES FLIGHTS AS COVID RAMPS UP IN THE US
21 DEPORTATIONS– THE MOST SINCE THE COVID SHUT DOWN ON MARCH 15
10 COUNTRIES PUNISHED WITH COVID EXPORTATION
WEEKLY SUMMARY – Friday 26 June, for the week of 22 June 2020 (please share for transparency)
101 Flights. UP 22 from 79 last week, and SUBSTANTIALLY over the last 8 week average of 76.
6/24/20
ICE Air continues to seed and spread COVID with no restraint. Here is our Witness at the Border view of all the likely ICE Air death flights through May of this year.
**Total ICE Air Flights YTD 2020: 2,036 **
Total ICE Air Deportations YTD: 388
** Total ICE Air Deportation Returns: 364 **
Total ICE Air Domestic Flights: 1,284
6/21/20
Still hiding from the pandemic, we watch deportation flights, venture timidly out to the streets, some of us, to join in the uprising against systemic racism. My weather app still sounds alerts every time there are storms encroaching on Brownsville, Texas, a few steps across the bridge over the bloody Rio Grande, on the opposite bank, where those storms pour rain onto the clay-rich mud and flood the tents of the people we left behind, in a ragged, fenced camp in Matamoros, Mexico.
6/20/20
DEATH FLIGHTS –ICE AIR CONTINUES TO SEED AND SPREAD OF COVID TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND IN DETENTION CENTERS.
WEEKLY SUMMARY – Friday 19 June, for the week of 15 June 2020
79 Flights this week. Down from the huge 92 last week, and still a bit over the last 8 week average of 75. But, deportation flights were almost the same as last week.
6/16/20
On the subject of the comments period open for response to newly proposed asylum rules...
Here is my comment. It starts further back, it steps us away from the framework we are being asked to work with. My comment asks: by what right do we tell people that the river makes a line that they cannot cross on their journey to a better life. By what just principle do we defend this line with massive military might?
6/11/20
Good lawyers, lawyers who are good people, fight the battle on the ground for more just treatment of supplicants who come to our borders and line up on the bridges over the rivers polluted with the bodies of the defeated. And there is special language that goes with the job, and that language forgivably hardens into the structure of the battle lines.
6/8/20
The power of bearing witness.
It may seem self-evident, but in the last days we have seen the seismic power of bearing witness. We have not seen the witness who kept her cell phone camera pointed at a man slowly dying under the pressure of oppression, the brutal poetry of watching a man stop breathing, his heart stopping, his voice stilled.
6/5/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – WEEKLY SUMMARY – Friday 5 June, for the week of 1 June 2020
73 Flights this week. Less than last week’s 90 driven by fewer deportation related flights with shuffle flights remaining about the same.
WEEKLY SUMMARY
- 73 Flights, 17 less than last week
- 11 Deportations – down 6 from last week
6/2/20
DEATH FLIGHTS – 2 June 2020
TODAY WAS AN EXTREMELY BUSY DAY IN EVERY RESPECT. HOW MUCH COVID WAS SPREAD TODAY? NO REQUIRED TESTING BEFORE MOVES. UNAVOIDABLE!
- TUESDAYS ARE ALWAYS BUSY BECAUSE THERE ARE 4 REGULAR ROUTES ON TUESDAY – EVERY WEEK WITH 14-16 LEGS.
29 FLIGHTS TODAY – 9 PLANES IN THE AIR
5/31/20
Borders establish a line of force that prevent those with a righteous claim on the bounty of the earth from getting it away from those who hoard that bounty. Borders may be lines along rivers guarded by automatic weapons and gates, and they may be lines more deceptively enforced, like the ones that reach along the chains of slavery to the present, link after link weighing down a people.
