J.D. Vance’s campaign plane carried anti-immigrant rhetoric. Now it carries shackled deportees.

JD Vance’s campaign plane carried anti-immigrant rhetoric. Now it carries shackled deportees

The VP campaigned on mass removals aboard aircraft that’s now shipping out immigrants as part of ICE Air by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror After Donald Trump tapped him as his running mate,

J.D. Vance’s campaign plane carried anti-immigrant rhetoric. Now it carries shackled deportees.

Then Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) boards his plane as he departs Arizona following a tour of the U.S. southern border with Mexica, on August 01, 2024 in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Vance was visiting the border on the final stop of his first visit to the Southwest as a vice presidential candidate. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)After Donald Trump tapped him as his running mate, J.D. Vance crisscrossed the cou…

JD Vance’s plane carried anti-immigrant rhetoric. Now it has shackled deportees

After Donald Trump tapped him as his running mate, J.D. Vance crisscrossed the country and gave speech after speech in which he, like Trump, demonized immigrants and promised to mount a mass deportation effort if elected.The Boeing 737 that he used to travel around the nation is now being used to de...

Vance’s campaign plane carried anti-immigrant rhetoric. Now it carries shackled deportees.

After Donald Trump tapped him as his running mate, J.D. Vance crisscrossed the country and gave speech after speech in which he, like Trump, demonized immigrants and promised to mount a mass deportation effort if elected.The Boeing 737 that he used to travel around the nation is now being used to deport immigrants. Records show that it has made at least 16 flights to Central and South American countries to deport immigrants this year.An Arizona …

J.D. Vance's campaign plane carried anti-immigrant rhetoric. Now it carries shackled deportees.

JD Vance boards his plane as he departs Arizona following a tour of the U.S. southern border with Mexico, on Aug. 1, 2024, in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Vance was visiting the border on the final stop of his first visit to the Southwest as a vice presidential candidate. Photo by Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesAfter Donald Trump tapped him as his running mate, J.D. Vance crisscrossed the country and gave speech after speech in which he, like Trump, de…

Common sense prevailed this year, but anti-immigrant sentiment still threatens Oklahoma

Oklahoma has never been the most welcoming state for immigrants. In recent years, however, heightened racist and nativist sentiment in the U.S. — along with President Trump’s push for mass deportations — has ratcheted up the amount of anti-immigrant efforts around Oklahoma. In this 2025 legislative session, over 20 anti-immigrant measures were introduced in the Oklahoma legislature. They ranged from barring any immigrant from owning or renting p…