A new report from the group Human Rights First shows the number of ICE deportation flights continued to rise last month — including in Arizona.
Human Rights First tracks the number of ICE flights out of airports across the country each month — including those using commercial carriers like Avelo Airlines. The budget airline began operating flights for ICE out of the Mesa airport last year, then stopped the service at the end of January.
Nonetheless, the latest report shows February was another busy month. More than 1,600 deportation and transfer flights took off nationwide — including a record 1,170 flights between detention centers, or roughly 42 a day.
Phoenix was among the top four cities where multiple shuttle flights were taking off each day and was also the site of the second removal flight this year for Palestinians.
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The ruling comes a day after news broke of the government’s plan to offer legal aid to detained immigrant children through a $150 million contract Burke Law Group — a small Texas-based firm with a co-founder who is a former Trump appointee. -
A notice posted on the Federal Register this week details a $150 million government contract with Burke Law Group to represent unaccompanied immigrant children. A multimillion-dollar contact with nonprofits across the country to do the work expired Friday. -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is supposed to help people during disasters like floods and fires. But a new report finds the Trump administration diverted FEMA staff at key times to do something very different — help ICE in immigration enforcement. -
The DACA program turned 14 this year. The Obama-era initiative is supposed to give some undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a work permit and temporary protection from deportation. But community members say that’s no longer the case under President Donald Trump. -
Some 20,000 children alone in the US receive legal aid through the contract — part of a federal program established by Congress almost two decades ago. The contract to do that work expires July 31.
