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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

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In the MSP case, Delta was flying Liam and dad to an ICE concentration camp - that was a domestic flight.

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‘Hiding in plain sight’: Video shows UW student, child escorted onto passenger flight for removal New footage raises questions about whether removals involving families are quietly happening on regular passenger airlines.

I believe this is the first video we’ve seen of a family getting deported on a commercial flight - Delta Air Lines out of Seattle, in this case.

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Water is wet, and DHS’s ‘deportation fleet’ boondoggle expands under Markwayne DHS under the former “Senate’s Stupidest” Markwayne Mullin is still buying more planes for a supposed “deportation fleet” that only seems to fly around MAGA VIPs.

NEW FROM ME: Water is wet, and DHS's "deportation fleet" boondoggle expands under Markwayne

-They bought two more planes from Avelo, with god-knows-what money.
-Noem's fuckjet took *someone* to the Iran talks in Pakistan.

And...

gillianbrockell.com/water-is-wet...

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There are many of us working on many angles, including Signature Aviation, the FBO that handles and fuels the flights here at MSP. đŸ«Ą

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No, Delta doesn't have a lounge at MSP - they have three.

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On Monday, Delta's asking our airport authority, the MAC, for a million dollars to start work on a new lounge at MSP - Delta shouldn't get a penny until they meet with us and explain how they're going to be a positive influence in the community.

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Delta has tremendous influence, and they do speak up from time to time - they were vocal supporters of the Big Beautiful Bill, which funded Operation Metro Surge, for example.

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While Delta doesn't operate the dedicated charter flights with shackled detainees, they do fly Minnesota children to ICE concentration camps - here's the footage we obtained showing Liam and his dad getting flown to San Antonio.

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MN50501 volunteer observers counted 18 people, including three women, being loaded at MSP on today's ICE flight.

Join us at the airport authority meeting on Monday at 1:00 PM to demand accountability from Delta Air Lines.

If Delta didn't operate this flight, why are we demanding accountability? đŸ‘‡đŸ§”

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Hotels Aren’t Seeing The World Cup Boon They Were Promised With just over two months until the World Cup begins, the hotel industry doesn’t see the promised economic boon on the horizon.

People don't want to risk being kidnapped and shipped to a Salvadoran gulag never to be seen again? Crazy

www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

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Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

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I want to identify every single plane that carried one of these kids to a camp.

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It’s been two weeks since we sent Delta Air Lines a letter asking for meeting with their leadership, and we have not heard back.
Delta wants to build another lounge at MSP, and our airport authority, the MAC, wants to pay $1 million for a feasibility study.
Join us at MAC’s public meeting at 1:00 PM on Monday, April 20, at MSP, to demand accountability from one of Minnesota’s most important airlines.
Learn how to attend a meeting at the airport
Linktr.ee/mn50501

It’s been two weeks since we sent Delta Air Lines a letter asking for meeting with their leadership, and we have not heard back. Delta wants to build another lounge at MSP, and our airport authority, the MAC, wants to pay $1 million for a feasibility study. Join us at MAC’s public meeting at 1:00 PM on Monday, April 20, at MSP, to demand accountability from one of Minnesota’s most important airlines. Learn how to attend a meeting at the airport Linktr.ee/mn50501

Join us next week at the airport to demand accountability from Delta Air Lines.

linktr.ee/mn50501

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My god, it’s poetry!

Where someone would bring a bacon cheeseburger and a grasshopper milkshake right to your chair while you awed at the nerd-ass spectacle of “Clash of the Titans” in post-converted 3D! (Quoth the tagline: “Titans will clash”).

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Today 27 shackled detainees were flown from Minnesota to Louisiana.

Every ICE Air flight at MSP is observed by MN50501 volunteers - ICE hasn't stopped, neither have we.

Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data/

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How can one who’s done so much good be so profoundly misguided?

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U.S. Rep. Angie Craig makes unannounced visit to Whipple building, hub of ICE activity ‱ Minnesota Reformer U.S. Rep. Angie Craig made an unannounced visit on Thursday to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, the hub of the Trump administration’s deportation operations in Minnesota. Thousands of immigr...

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig makes unannounced visit to Whipple building minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/u...

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They were going to all of their appointments. And now their teachers, their peers at Burton Elementary, and Durham neighborhood are left missing them tremendously. Genesis, Denis and their parents were abducted without warning at a routine Charlotte immigration check-in on Monday.

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Fighting ICE from the Sky: Behind the CU Key Lime Air Protests Colorado’s Key Lime Air is under fire for what student protestors are calling both ethical and safety failures.

Our friends in Colorado are doing good work raising awareness around Denver Air Connection / Key Lime's participation in ICE Air.

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DNC trying to go 1 for 4 against Trump; I don’t get it.

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One of Minnesota's most unhinged right-wing posters is the state’s newest immigration judge ‱ Minnesota Reformer A right-wing attorney and influential X user who has amplified racist conspiracies and fringe legal theories, will make decisions on which immigrants will be deported in his new job as an immigration judge.

Nathan Hansen, the newest immigration judge at Fort Snelling, has a long history of sharing far-right conspiracy theories online.

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You’re absolutely right to be proud of this work.

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My near-term goal is the closure of Dilley, and cessation of family detentions while immigration proceedings are underway.

Please join me, Ms. Rachel, Raffi, and hundreds of thousands of other good people who’ve signed this petition: c.org/W6pC7wRqZM

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I asked my old friend, SportsAviation, if they had any intel on N808TJ, and this is what they sent me 👀

We can add USC, Standford, Oregon, Maryland, Michigan State, Duke, Vilanova, and Penn State to the list.

Note that a few of the dots on the map are just fuel stops.

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A neighbor, from Burnsville, where I live.

Fuck ICE.

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Finally, our flight recap videos now feature a soundtrack provided by Minnesota artist Reed R, who volunteered their services: fablefactory.org

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If you like to tell the NCAA to stop flying with ICE Air, sign this letter: bit.ly/dumpice

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Here's an updated graph showing the estimated number of detainees being flown out of MSP each data on ICE Air flights.

MN50501 volunteers observe every flight at MSP - help cover their parking fees: mn50501.org/donate

Local data, updated in near real-time: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data

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Over the past few weeks, the UMD Bulldogs, Merrimack Warriors, Wisconsin Badgers, Texas Longhorns, and Santa Clara Broncos, all flew their teams on this particular jet - Eastern Air Express's N808TJ.

Today it flew shackled ICE detainees between Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Louisiana. đŸ§”

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