Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is "Only a Matter of Time"

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Source: ProPublica

The deportation flight was in the air over Mexico when chaos erupted in the back of the plane, the flight attendant recalled. A little girl had collapsed. She had a high fever and was taking ragged, frantic breaths.

The flight attendant, a young woman who went by the nickname Lala, said she grabbed the plane's emergency oxygen bottle and rushed past rows of migrants chained at the wrists and ankles to reach the girl and her parents.

By then, Lala was accustomed to the hard realities of working charter flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She'd learned to obey instructions not to look the passengers in the eyes, not to greet them or ask about their well-being. But until the girl collapsed, Lala had managed to escape an emergency.

Lala worked for Global Crossing Airlines, the dominant player in the loose network of deportation contractors known as ICE Air. GlobalX, as the charter company is also called, is lately in the news. Two weeks ago, it helped the Trump administration fly hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite a federal court order blocking the deportations, triggering a showdown that experts fear could become a full-blown constitutional crisis.

Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

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ProPublica knocked it out of the park with this one, as usual.
This is psychopathic. As they say in the article, it is only a matter of time before there's a complete disaster. A plane accident, and a hundred human beings burn up or drown, who could have escaped? Including children??

The United States of Cruelty. They are competing for the bottom of the heap in terms of decency.
Totally offensive to the concept of aviation safety or the profession of flight attendants.
Totally offensive to the concept of justice, life/liberty, humanity, shining city on a hill.
Grotesque.