Padilla Demands Answers About Avelo’s ICE Flights

Padilla demands answers about Avelo’s ICE flights

The following is a news release from the office of Sen. Alex Padilla: Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) raised serious concerns to Avelo Airlines CEO Andrew Levy about the airline’s contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to fly domestic and international deportation flights, even as the Trump Administration is unlawfully…

What role do Irish companies have in the US deportation industry?

The Journal Investigates found airlines who run flights for ICE have links to several aircraft leasing companies in Ireland.

Avelo Airlines faces backlash as it begins deportation flights

The financially struggling budget airline Avelo took a contract with the Trump administration that began this week.

Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash Over Deportation Contract

Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash Over Deportation Contract In a controversial move, Texas-based Avelo Airlines is facing widespread backlash for its new deportation flight contract with the Trump administration. Amid financial struggles, the carrier is under scrutiny from both customers and employees for collaborating with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to transport migrants to detention centers.The airline has committed three aircraft fo…

Activists Are Fighting Tax Subsidies for Airline Running ICE Deportation Flights

The Connecticut legislature has advanced two actions actively targeting Avelo Airlines, a previously little-known private airline that’s taken the mantle of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda by flying deportation flights for the Department of Homeland Security. In early May, the state’s legislature advanced a bill that bans companies engaged in Immigration and Customs… Source

NEW HAVEN.- Protesters gathered at the Tweed New Haven Airport to protest Avelo Airlines deportation flights, which began last Monday. Avelo Airlines agreed to charter deportation flights from Mesa, Arizona, for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Protests against Avelo were also held at the Tweed New Haven Airport last April. But protests are now becoming more urgent. Margarita, who only gave her first name out of fear of federa…