It’s a little known fact, but there are genuinely not that many planes available for deportation to be carried out on. ICE doesn’t have its own fleet of aircraft. It contracts with private companies to provide charter air service. And there aren’t that many unbooked airplanes + crew floating around.
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A private jet known as “Trump Force Two” which was used to transport JD Vance during the election is now being used to deport migrants to Central America, records show
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I began posting about the unusual aircraft in the area …
I’m just not from here so I didn’t know who to tag that would be all interested in it, but I did post about it
However, they really need to hold these flights until they have more than about 8 people on board. 🙄
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/jd-vances-campaign-plane-is-being-used-for-migrant-deportation-flights/
And who owns the LLC? It's complicated:
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1487421&start=50
Haven't they declared a national emergency?
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The Republican Party is a file and corrupt enterprise to its fucking core
This is the Republican Party, not just Trump
Every fucking single fucking one
This repetition of the word open borders is another republican talking point that every idiot is repeating like a fucking parrot
For a century, we’ve had a migrant class of people that would come for the growing season and go back
And that was just for a brief moment in the deepest part of the great depression
He wasn't the betrayal of 40 years of Reaganism, he was the culmination of 50 years of Nixonism.
But I would say he was anomaly
What was Joe McCarthy?
A fucking republican
And the country bought his drunken bullshit
And destroyed thousands of people’s lives
Sounds familiar?
Republican Party strikes again
(runway/taxi only, of course)
That means 2,650 flights just to remove the people who lost their status in the CHNV case this week.
fascism never ever changes.
Fill in the blank
FIRST they came for >---
I didn't say anything
Because it wasn't
Me
Then they came for ~~~~
But it wasn't
Me
So I was quite
Then they came for
ME
But no-one
spoke up
For
ME
Then
we
ALL
Were
sent
to
El Salvador
and
we
were
ALL
Forgetting
Thanks so much for taking the time to do that this weekend. It's appreciated.
The scale of “mass deportation” has always been limited by operational constraints.
The reconciliation bill could change that. My piece:
I happen to know several commercial pilots who are actively looking for work. They just happen to all be immigrants from the south so...
But this is why the admin has started using military planes in some cases. Both for the public show AND to ramp up capacity.
That would go over well…
Then there are the comparisons to the original Nazis…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/ice-detention-centers-immigration-asylum
they'll do it whatever way they feel like. whatever is cheapest.
Either we're transporting tanks etc somewhere for an invasion or these are deportation flights
I legitimately don't know; it's not my area.
This administration is playing for show
We were in the middle of a fucking great recession caused by Republicans
You probably don’t fucking remember
I do
Obama was a pragmatic center
But it was to the R advantage to paint him like some wild liberal
BS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/25/meet-the-man-the-white-house-has-honored-for-deporting-illegal-immigrants/