In April 2026, ICE Flight Monitor tracked 245 removal flights, a monthly record since independent flight tracking began in ...
Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement sharply increased the number of deportation flights chartered in 2025, according to data compiled by the ICE Flight Monitor project at Human Rights First. There ...
Immigration-related flights in and out of Missouri increased more than 200% in the first year of the Trump administration. Kansas City International Airport is central to these deportation efforts, ...
Since the start of President Donald Trump's second term in 2025, there has been a big increase in the number of immigrant deportation flights. KPBS reporter Gustavo Solis says more of those flights ...
Nick Benson tracks deportation flights departing daily from Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport in Minneapolis on Feb. 3, 2026, amid Operation Metro Surge. (Jaida Grey Eagle for NPR) ...
MINNEAPOLIS – Nick Benson stands tucked out of the cold inside an elevator terminal at the Minneapolis-St. Paul international, looking out a window at the tarmac. Commercial airplanes dart by, but one ...