New Haven protesters rally against Avelo's deportation flights

ICE Contracts Avelo Airlines to Fly Deportees

Boycott Avelo Airlines protest, Santa Rosa Airport, CA, April 26. (Photo by Roger D. Harris) Avelo Airlines has entered into a controversial agreement with US immigration authorities to operate deportation flights, sparking protests from coast to coast. Activists, legal organizations, and local communities are mobilizing against the carrier’s role in deportations. The controversy reflects a broader reckoning with the US’s long and bipartisan his…

New Haven protesters rally against Avelo's deportation flights

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) -- Avelo Airlines is under fire from local protestors. They demonstrated outside of Tweed New Haven Airport on Wednesday, over Avelo's agreement to fly deportation flights out of Arizona for the Trump administration. The airline signed a long-term charter agreement to fly for the Department of Homeland Security beginning in May. Avelo to fly deportation flights for ICE from Arizona The plan is to fly immigrants roun…

Rights groups protest at Tweed over Avelo’s deportation flights

Local immigrant rights groups plans protested at Tweed Airport Wednesday evening over Avelo Airlines’ announcement that it will fly deportation flights.

Avelo boycotters rally outside of Tweed-New Haven Airport after ICE flight agreement

There’s pushback in New Haven after Avelo Airlines agreed to charter deportation flights for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Dozens rallied outside Tweed-New Haven Airport calling for a boycott on the airline. Avelo Airlines said the agreement gives them stability to expand and keep employees. They say the deportation flights would be leaving from Arizona. “One of the most terrible things our government has done in a l…

Thousands pledge to boycott Tweed-based Avelo over ICE deportation charters

"What's happening is wrong on just so many levels," said Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller.

CT lawmakers could penalize Avelo Airlines for deportation flights

CT legislators want to expand the Trust Act to prohibit companies that contract with state agencies from sharing information with ICE.