NEW REPORT: ICE Air Flights December and December YTD 2020

Friends, we may not agree on how to manage the migratory flow of people wishing to make the US their home. But I'm certain we can all agree to this:

Torturing innocents is never okay.

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 28 December – please share for transparency Photo is the last deportation flight of the year arriving and disembarking in Guatemala this week.

Ø Coming Soon. Watch for our Full Year 2020 report. See the total 2020 ICE Air deportations and total flights.

Ø 15 deportations this week, 3 below last 6 week average, even though total flights at 63 were 20 below last 6-week average.

Countdown, 3 January 2021

President – Elect Biden pledged to halt deportation flights for 100 days.

We want him to do it permanently.

Countdown, 2 January 2021

President – Elect Biden pledged to halt deportation flights for 100 days.

We want him to do it permanently.

Countdown, 1 January 2021

President – Elect Biden pledged to halt deportation flights for 100 days.

We want him to do it permanently.

Countdown, 31 December 2020

President – Elect Biden pledged to halt deportation flights for 100 days.

We want him to do it permanently.

What’s Next? Postcard Campaign

Postcard #3 (Mail January 19-22)

The World is Watching

This campaign is being sent to President-Elect Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, VP-Elect Kamala Harris, and Alejandro Mayorkas (nominated to head Department of Homeland Security).

Countdown, 30 December 2020

President – Elect Biden pledged to halt deportation flights for 100 days.

We want him to do it permanently.

Some of us were talking this morning about how it is hard for people to get their minds around the enormity of the day-after-day deportation of humans from airports and across borders, taking place around us and being done in our name.

Tom Cartwright has written a letter to President-Elect Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, and VP-Elect Kamala Harris.

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 21 December

Ø Feliz Navidad (Merry Christmas) – No

Ø Nochebueno (Christmas Eve) – 8 deportations

Ø Navidad (Christmas) – 2 deportations

Ø 8 Weeks with no flights to Honduras because of hurricanes Eta and Iota. Prior there were 4-5 per weeks.

Ø Lowest level of deportations to Guatemala (1) since the week of 1 June

What’s Next? Postcard Campaign

Postcard #2 (Mail January 5-8)

Never Again Child Detentions

There are people now on the verge of deportation, now in the last days of Trump and, perhaps, we are not yet sure, on into the age of a new administration whose commitment to asylum is not yet fully known.

Art by Melissa Bowen Rubin

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 14 December. Photo: by Witness Florence: Omni Air (ICE Air) deportation to Africa.

Ø Lowest level of deportations (16) to Latin America and the Caribbean since the week of 9 August.

Ø 7 Weeks with no flights to Honduras because of hurricanes Eta and Iota. Prior there were 4-5 per weeks.

Ø Lowest level of deportations to Guatemala (2) since the week of 3 August.

Ø We will be very interested in # of encounters when reported for December. I think they may be flat to down, a contrarian guess.

Ø 16 deportation flights to 9 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean AND deportations to 5 African countries.

What’s Next? Postcard Campaign

Postcard #1 - End MPP

Mail December 15-18

This first postcard in a series is being sent to Joe & Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Alejandro Mayorkas (nominated to head Department of Homeland Security).

Image: Sidewalk School for Children Asylum Seekers, Matamoros

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 7 December – please share for transparency

Ø 6 WEEKS WITH NO FLIGHTS TO HONDURAS BECAUSE OF HURRICANES ETA AND IOTA. PRIOR WEEKS THERE WERE 4-5 PER WEEK.

Ø DEPORTATIONS TO GUATEMALA NOW ABOUT HALF OF WHAT THEY WERE LAST MONTH.

Ø ARE MORE PEOPLE BEING EXPELLED BY LAND TO MEXICO? OR WILL WE SEE ENCOUNTERS LOWER IN NOVEMBER WHEN REPORTED?

Ø STILL, 17 DEPORTATION FLIGHTS TO 6 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN.

Ø 86 TOTAL FLIGHTS, 5 BELOW THE LAST 6-MONTH AVERAGE

The closer they come, the harder it is to look away. That is why we place so many hurdles in the way of people who take to their feet and begin the long, slow march to save their lives. And the lives of their children.

Day 16 of 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Against Women The Official 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign #16Days #OrangeTheWorld #GenerationEquality #RatifyILO190

For our final post of these 16 Days, we leave you with this general information, resources, statistics and this reminder: "When it comes to statistics relating to violence against women and children it’s important to know that you don’t have to be a math expert to understand the numbers. You simply have to be willing to recognize that each statistic represents a woman, child, or family — a life — torn apart by violence and abuse."