US EditionVideo Shows Minnesota Dad and Boy Were Moved to ICE Detention Center on Commercial Flight
A video reveals ICE flew a 5-year-old asylum-seeker and his father on a Delta commercial flight from Minneapolis to Texas, highlighting covert use of public flights in immigration transfers.
- Airport security video shows 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, being flown commercially to Texas on a Delta Air Lines flight to San Antonio after their detention in Minneapolis.
- Aviation activist Nick Benson obtained the footage via public records request after suspecting ICE was using commercial flights, since he had never seen children on ICE Air Operations charter flights.
- Savi Arvey, director of research and analysis for Human Rights First, said commercial flights are "less in the public eye" than charter planes. Monitors cannot track individual passengers on these routes, adding "another level of opaqueness" to enforcement.
- The family's lawyer confirmed they are appealing their detention. Delta declined to comment on the video, stating most government travel is booked through third-party agencies without advance notice of passenger identities.
- ICE Air continues to expand, documenting 1,630 immigration enforcement flights in February alone—an average of 42 per day—including 1,170 domestic transfers and 183 deportation flights. This growth contrasts sharply with the difficulty of tracking less visible commercial movements.
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Delta under fire for January flight sending Liam Ramos to Texas
Activists and labor union leaders are demanding that Delta Air Lines stop flying children to states where they are bound for immigration detention centers, and to address how they’ve worked with federal immigration agencies. About a hundred people attended a virtual news conference Friday to denounce Delta Air Lines for flying 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father to Texas in January, where they were then detained. Organizers behind the e…
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diario.mxAn airport security video shows another way in which federal agents are taking immigrants to detention centers: in some cases they are using commercial flights, with escorts dressed like any other passenger.
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Video shows Minnesota dad and boy were flown on Delta to ICE detention in Texas
Airport security video shows another way federal agents are taking immigrants to detention centers. In some cases they’re using commercial flights, with escorts dressed like any other passengers to avoid drawing attention.
Video shows Minnesota dad and son were flown on Delta to Texas ICE detention
Video shows Minnesota dad and son were flown on Delta to Texas ICE detention Video shows Adrian Conejo Arias and his 5-year-old son Liam being escorted onto a Delta flight from Minneapolis to Texas after they were detained by immigration agents in January. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home The post Video shows Minnesota da…
This practice of using commercial flights adds a layer of discretion
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