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Deportation flights and hubs

Investigations into secretive deportation flights and centralized deportation hubs

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Jan 27, 2026
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How have recent DHS and ICE appropriations changed the budgets of private detention contractors and surveillance vendors?

The appropriations process has simultaneously constrained and expanded pockets of spending: the / conference language and agency requests keep ICE’s topline roughly flat in some measures while the bro...

Jan 27, 2026

Do deportation flights typically file flight plans, and can these be accessed publicly?

Most are regular civil or charter flights that must file flight plans and generate publicly observable aviation data — and independent projects use that data to track them — but a subset of government...