Flights at Los Angeles-area airports related to U.S. immigration have more than doubled in the month before Sunday.
Ice increases activity in the area this monthcarried out multiple raids, including on June 6 Fashion Zone. Due to the raid, 330 people According to the White House, arrests have been made as of June 11, some of whom have escaped from the area. The ICE has not released many details about the detainees.
An ICE spokesman told the Times that the agency did not provide details on future flights due to safety reasons. “The ice rink office coordinates with ice aerial operations based in Mesa, Arizona to arrange demolition travel and home transfers, both of which are in Commercial airlines and ice-air charter planes,” a spokesperson said in an email.
The Times reviews and analyzes public flight data prepared by Tom Cartwright Witnesses at the border Who tracks ice flight? Cartwright tracked about 36,000 ice flights in five years using publicly available aircraft details and flight modes.
Since the June raid began, nearly 70% of deportation-related flights to the Los Angeles area originated at Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville. Adelanto Ice Processing Center. Victorville’s airport is a public-purpose airport where Charter Airlines can operate non-private flights. Victorville spokesman Sue Jones told The Times that the city could not confirm ice-related activities because flight details were not tracked.
There are also reports that departing from other airports, including Burbank International and Meadows Field in Bakersfield.
Since June 6, a quarter of flights have flown directly to nearby Phoenix Gateway Airport. About one-fifth of flights to El Paso, the Mexican consulate told the Times that some of them were detained in Los Angeles.
In addition to headquarters, ICE AIR OPURATIONS is mainly from Miami. Alexander, Louisiana; and San Antonio and Brownsville, Texas.
Leases for ice-related flights can be parked or transferred multiple times in a day, both inside and outside the United States. However, passenger boarding and disembarking journeys cannot be tracked using publicly available data.
Overall, from January 1 to May, ICE has stopped 685 deportations to more than 30 international destinations. It’s roughly the same as last year. ICE confirmed to Times that the agency will be deported to countries in Central America, including Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, as well as other parts of the world, “for special high-risk missions.”
For planes flying through Victorville, some people later stopped at airports in cities like Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Harlingen, Texas. Other destinations outside the mainland of the United States include: San Juan Puerto Rico; San Pedro Sula in Honduras; Tapachula in Mexico; the city of Guatemala; Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic; and San Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
