ICE Air Weekly Activity – Week of 25 January 2021

Ø Despite 2 days of the 100-day moratorium, and a new Administration, total ICE Air flights this week were equal to the prior 6-week average.

Ø It is curious to me that the Biden Administration has not found a way with or without a moratorium, to reduce the number of ICE Air removal and domestic flights.

Ø This week, 20 deportation/expulsion flights to 7 different countries and 79 total ICE Air flights. 2 over the prior 6-week average.

Photo: Jan 29 flight to Honduras by Frances Kelley who witnessed it

#WelcomeWithDignity. Today is the 2nd anniversary of MPP. Families are still stuck in limbo in the encampments at the border in Mexico. Joe Biden ended the program for new asylum seekers (thank you!), but he must now fully #EndMPP. Thank you, Alessandra Mondolfi! We miss you.

Count up. Day 9. January 28.

ICE AIR FLIGHTS WILL NOT STOP, AND PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO BE RETURNED TO MEXICO OR THEIR COUNTRIES, UNTIL THE CDC HEALTH ORDER (TITLE 42) IS RESCINDED.

STATEMENT ON FORCED MIGRATION:

MIGRANT MASSACRE AND REPRESSION OF MIGRANT CARAVAN SPOTLIGHT MORTAL DANGERS FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS HEADING NORTH

January 28, 2021, Brooklyn NY -- On the occasion of the two-year anniversary of the Trump administration’s implementation of the notorious Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), or Remain in Mexico, and on the eve of additional immigration measures to be announced by the Biden administration, Witness at the Border issues the following statement.

Image: Border Report

Count up. Day 8, January 27.

ICE AIR FLIGHTS WILL NOT STOP, AND PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO BE RETURNED TO MEXICO OR THEIR COUNTRIES, UNTIL THE CDC HEALTH ORDER (TITLE 42) IS RESCINDED.

Count up, Day 7, 1/26/21.

ICE AIR FLIGHTS WILL NOT STOP, AND PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO BE RETURNED TO MEXICO OR THEIR COUNTRIES, UNTIL THE CDC HEALTH ORDER (TITLE 42) IS RESCINDED.

#NoDeportations #WelcomeWithDignity

What’s Next? Postcard Campaign

Postcard #4 (Mail February 2-5)

End Immigrant Detention

This campaign is being sent to President Biden, Vice President Harris, Alejandro Mayorkas (nominated to head Department of Homeland Security) and Xavier Becerra (Health and Human Services.

Count up. Day 4, January 23.

ICE AIR FLIGHTS WILL NOT STOP, AND PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO BE RETURNED TO MEXICO OR THEIR COUNTRIES, UNTIL THE CDC HEALTH ORDER (TITLE 42) IS RESCINDED.

Biden Inauguration – 100-day deportation moratorium – One day ICE Air grounding - Honduran Caravan stopped and broken up by Guatemala – Another flight to Africa . Click on the topic in the note above and you will link to more information.

Ø People “expelled” at the border are done so based on the excuse of health safety under the CDC order (title 42) which has put a tourniquet around the border since mid-March. Between Ap and Dec 417,000 people have come to our southern border to seek protection. 373,000 of them were summarily sent back by land into Mexico (I est. 320,000,) or by air to their countries with no due process.

A squabble has broken out somewhere in this group, in this strange place called FaceBook...

Someone believed that people who come to read here, and to write here, should feel as she does, that people should celebrate the new president and refrain from criticism. Others have pointed out that that voice comes from the luxury of privilege.

I speak from privilege. White privilege.

Day 1 : Count-up to Rescinding Title 42 (CDC order) and grounding ICE expulsion flights, 22 January 2021

President Biden placed a pause pn deportation flights for 100 days. Until the CDC order is rescinded ICE flights outside the US will continue.

Inauguration Day Countdown 1/20/21.

Every day. We Witness. #NoDeportations #DoneWithDeportation #DeathFlights

Today, the day before the inauguration of Pres Biden who has pledged a moratorium on deportations, we are Witnessing ICE Air deport people to Mauritania, a country that abolished slavery only a few decades ago.

FINAL Countdown to #NoDeportations: 1/19/21

Every day. We Witness. #1MoreDay

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 11 January – please share for transparency

Ø 4 Days until Biden’s Inauguration. He promised a 100-Day halt to deportations. Witness with us.

Ø 3 Deportation flights to Honduras for the second week in a row. Last week were the first flights in 9 weeks following devastation from 2 hurricanes.

Ø Another flight to Africa into great danger with deportations to at least Somalia and Ethiopia, and possibly Kenya.

Photo is deportation flight to Africa boarding in Alexandria LA. By Frances Kelley.**

Countdown to #NoDeportations 1/18/2021.

Every day. We Witness. #2MoreDays

Sign on to our statement urging Biden to End Deportations.

We have been to the border. We have seen people on both sides of the border. Many of generous spirit and intellect will admit that on both sides the people are worthy of sympathy. Others, like us, who have stood on both sides of that line of guns and uniforms and rusted steel, have had our natural sympathies heightened, and it has become for us that thing which most enrages those less generous: a deep revulsion for the institutions that block the flow of suffering humanity toward the light, toward life.

Countdown to #NoDeportations 1/17/2021.

Every day. We Witness. #3MoreDays

Countdown to #NoDeportations 1/15/2021.

Every day. We Witness. #5moredays