With Witness at the Border. @witnessborder . Immigration Activist. Retired Financial Service Exec - JPMorgan.
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👀✈️ NEW! September 2026. Monthly ICE Air report including the tracking, analysis, and reporting of 66,000+ ICE flights since January 2020. In September: 324 deportations plus 1,258 domestic flights shuffling people to and between detention and staging centers.
Amidst continued abuses by ICE, @ICEFlightM shines a light on an opaque, cruel system of removal flights occurring without due process, often to places where people are at serious risk. People should never be sent to places where they face grave harm.
Where are all those US workers who supposedly have been unemployed waiti g for these jobs?! That has alweays been fiction. "The summer surge in immigration raids is hitting the housing market, pushing up labor costs and freezing projects" wsj.com/us-news/the-immigrat… via @WSJ
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The immediate question we have is how will cartels & smugglers along the US-MEX border adapt if these new measures have more of an effect on their smuggling/trafficking efforts?
We would argue that drones have become integral in trafficking of narcotics & persons at the border.
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US DOT, DHS & DOW have announced a TFR along the US-Mexico border that “will prohibit unauthorized drone operations within one nautical mile of the U.S.-Mexico border, from the surface to 400 feet” to curb the growing threat of cartel & criminal drones along the southern border.
What have we become….
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. Story with @nancyayoussef theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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A small (14-seat) Journey jet from Mesa, AZ, w/ stops in Puerto Rico & Senegal, is currently en route to a deportation stop in Sub-Saharan Africa. We believe this flight is likely bound for Kenya w/ at least some Somalis onboard as we've been tracking a transfer plane's activity.
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ICE claims that Mr. Parra Hernandez ran in front of an agency vehicle. Surveillance footage from a nearby business showed Parra Hernandez & another man running away. The ICE vehicle veered around the corner & appeared to hit Parra Hernandez from behind nytimes.com/2026/10/13/us/ho…
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An ICE Air flight (GXA6121) that departed Alexandria, LA at 8:30 am local time today, is currently en route to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, expected to arrive at 12:40 ET. Deportation flights to Haiti have been taking place once a week since Aug. 20.
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New stuff here.
- 600 army personnel to train in Panama, and then with Colombian and Honduran forces
- A new civilian Pentagon office, given $20m, to "help oversee the military's counter-cartel activities" (there's already a Joint Task Force Western Hem and a US Army WH Command)
NEW -- U.S. is sending hundreds of Army troops to Latin America to help fight drug traffickers, expanding the Pentagon's counter-cartel campaign w/@GregJaffe, @anniecorreal nytimes.com/2026/10/14/us/po…
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Yesterday, another small (14-seat) ICE Air jet departed Mesa, AZ at 2:17 pm local time, made a refuelling stop in Puerto Rico, and landed in Nouakchott, Mauritania today at 10:12 am local time, before proceeding to Dakar, Senegal.
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An ICE Air flight that originated in Alexandria, LA with a stop in Miami, FL, arrived in Saint Kitts and Nevis at 3:52 pm ET, marking the 2nd forced third country transfer there under this admin.
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NEW: Nearly 16.5 tons of cocaine and marijuana offloaded today at Florida’s Port Everglades—the result of six separate interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
The breakdown: approximately 29,600 pounds of cocaine and 3,355 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $226.7 million, according to the Coast Guard.
@USCG @USCGSoutheast Tampa’s crew seized the drugs with assistance from partner agencies.
The commanding officer of USCG Tampa saying, “For the global illicit drug trade valued around a trillion dollars, the cartels possess massive resources to invest in ever more powerful smuggling vessels, sophisticated intelligence networks, and deliberate tracks like scuttling valves to sync evidence and imperil our boarding team members. Each time, we deploy, the threat takes on new dimensions, but through relentless preparation and interagency coordination, we will continue to overmatch them.”
This comes as Operation Pacific Viper continues targeting maritime drug trafficking, with @DHSgov reporting more than 262,000 pounds of cocaine seized under the operation.
Not to be missed. Not acceptable. Horrific to think about. The Taliban Are Using Europe’s Fear of Migrants to Their Advantage nytimes.com/2026/10/12/world… via @NYTimes
ICE Air third country removals to Sierra Leone, Ghana, Cameroon, and Liberia tracked and reported below by @ICEFlightM
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This image follows CNN reporting from last year that the U-2 has been operating over Mexico. If confirmed, it would be the first known photograph of the aircraft operating over Mexican territory.
From @coco_coindreau we have a photo allegedly taken from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon of a U-2 Dragon Lady flying overhead. Many cartels have a presence in the city like other major metropolitan cities within Mexico.
Left source photo & right comparison photo is 7 years ago in the US.
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UPDATE: After Ghana, the ICE Air flight landed in Yaounde, Cameroon, removing another group of third country nationals there from the U.S.
ICE Air - Now Jamaica joins the ranks of countries greeting third country removals from the US.
ICE Air Africa- so far 2 third country removals reported by @ICEFlightM
