
The brutal realities of ICE Air
Darryl Campbell
created: July 10, 2025, noon | updated: July 10, 2025, 12:41 p.m.
Many people just call it “ICE Air.”ICE Air is no less brutal than the agency’s heavy-handed field operations.
ICE Air is no less brutal than the agency’s heavy-handed field operationsSo, under Barack Obama’s administration, the agency turned to the private sector.
In 2010, ICE began working with a company called Classic Air Charter to broker deportation flights directly from charter airlines.
Since then, ICE Air has grown into an operation rivaling that of a small commercial airline.
And no president — Obama, Biden, or Trump — has intervened to stop it or even scale ICE Air back.
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