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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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