Wed (12th) ICE Air flight #135 since 19 Sept scheduled to #Haiti on the 12th anniversary of the devastating earthquake that forced many people to seek food and shelter where possible outside of Haiti. Some end this long journey rejected this way. This flight from El Paso, only The second from there(yesterday 1st) expelling about 14,400 since 19 Sept and the 171st flight since inauguration expelling about 17,300. 19th in Jan and 44th in the last month since 13 Dec. Posting add’l flights today here. @Ameliebaron @SarnataReynolds @SandraDVOA @Arosaflores

Tues (11th) and 2 ICE Air scheduled to #Haiti. One from Laredo and one from El Paso which is the first from there since the mass removal began in Sept. If both operate (will confirm here) this makes 133 flights since 19 Sept expelling about 14,100 and … …169 since inauguration expelling around 17,000. 5 this week (1 of 4 scheduled yesterday did not fly) and 42 since 13 Dec, less than a month. @AmbDanFoote @SarnataReynolds @Ameliebaron @daniburgip @SaviArvey @JuliaNeusner @folksmove @haitiinfos1804 @HaitiJustice @Arosaflores

Mon (10th) ICE Air flight #129 since 19 Sept scheduled to #Haiti from Laredo expelling about 13,700 # 165 since inauguration expelling about 16,600. The 13th in Dec and 28th since 13 Dec. will post additional today in thread. @Ameliebaron @SandraDVOA @YaelSchacher @daniburgip @SarnataReynolds @ErikaAndiola @eeerox @haitiinfos1804 @humanrights1st @HaitianBridge @Arosaflores @folksmove @SaviArvey @JuliaNeusner

It’s 7am Tues and expulsion Flight #81 since 19 Sept is scheduled to Haiti to Port-Au-Prince from Laredo. This will bring the estimate of the number expelled to around 8,600 since 19 Sept. this is the 117th likely removal flight to Haiti under Pres. Biden with an estimated 11,000 Sent back to danger in Haiti. ICYMI here is my analysis of ICE Air flights since Jan 2020 with over 4,500 since inauguration. @SarnataReynolds @Ameliebaron @SandraDVOA @robynyakira @ErikaAndiola @daniburgip @TUSK81 @SaviArvey @folksmove @jeanguerre @JahbFeray @FrankSharry

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1/9 🧵 683 ICE Air flight legs in Oct. 3rd highest month in 22 months since starting to document in Jan 2020. Only behind August, 695 and September, 766. Last 3 months at 2,144 highest 3 months since documenting. witnessattheborder.org/posts/11721-2 2/9 In Oct, 139 removal flights, the second highest in 22 months following 192 in Sept. Adding 43 lateral flights (effectively removal flights) bumps up to 182. Below 232 (including lateral) in Sept, but 50 over prior high.

🧵Based on the CBP data there were 43,570 encounters in the Del Rio Sector in September, up from 33,062 in August. Of these,15,951 were Haitians, up from 5,185 in August. Of the 15,951 Haitians, 6,215 were subject to Title 42 ( 39%) and 9,736 (61%) subject to Title 8. Both of …these statistics are below the prior discussed numbers (not specific to bridge TOP, or Haitians) of 30,000 and 12,000 released to seek asylum. What we Don’t know is: how many Title 8 were/are in detention (not released to community)….

It’s good to remind ourselves that although 40% of encounters in March resulted in releases that 103,900 PEOPLE WERE EXPELLED at our doorstep without even the illusion of due process or the ability to make their… …to assert their legal right to seek asylum or protection here. This includes 17,345 family members, many of whom have very small children and who were expelled directly into MX. Almost 25% of these families were…

I wish some people, including TV news broadcasters who usually don’t cover migration, would stop saying Biden reversed a Trump policy and began accepting unaccompanied kids. It’s not true. It is true that from March through November, 16,350 kids were expelled by Trump under T42. … Biden did CONTINUE accepting kids when the NOVEMBER court order against expelling kids was reversed, but the reduction in % expelled actually started drifting down in August as you can see from the top graph (numbers below chart on left)…

1/8 Thread. Highlights of my open letter that I hope you will read/consider that I mailed this weekend to Joe/Jill Biden, Kamala , Alejandro Mayorkas, Ur Jaddou about their messaging last week to be patient on immediate border changes. Their concern…witnessattheborder.org/posts/122820 2/8… fear that we will create a crisis at the border and “have 2 mill people on our border.”…I’m under no illusion the letter will reach it’s intended audiences, so comments and RTs welcome. Dialogue is important now…

1/10 .@DHS_Wolf As promised, here are 4 more questions I would ask you at your confirmation hearing had I been invited. Feel free to answer in the comments below. I'm still waiting for answers to yesterday's questions. I will attach in this thread in case you missed them... 2/10 1. April through July you expelled 84,000 Mexicans under Title 42 (CDC order). BUT, Mexico only reports receiving 46,200 under the US repatriation agreement with Mexico. That is a GAP of almost 38,000. If we est. the full pandemic, the GAP is 52,000 people....

1 /6 .@DHS_Wolf I was not invited to your confirmation hearing Wednesday so I will leave you some questions in this thread. I may have more this week, but feel free to put your answers to these 3 in the comments now. 2/6 1.Since 26 April Guatemala has required a negative COVID test for all deportations from the US (ICE and Guatemala confirmed). From 1 May to 18 Sept, 744 unaccompanied children (UACs) have been repatriated by the US to Guatemala....

.@senrobportman will you follow your 2016 principles? Tell us. “We should let the people decide. This is not about the person, it’s about the principle.” dispatch.com/article/201603… “We are in the midst of a highly charged presidential election that is less than eight months away, and this lifetime appointment could reshape the Supreme Court for generations.”

There has been over 100 ICE Air flights into Columbus GA and over 100 out this year shuffling detainees around the US. None disclosed by ICE. There was one today. How many witnesses will be disappeared? .@WitnessBorder

nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/… ICE does not disclose their flights. @WitnessBorder tracks for transparency.

@HomelandKen and @DHS_Wolf have expelled almost 9000 children alone into just these areas as commodities available to these cartels. In violation of TVPRA Trafficing protection laws. Children. Children. Children.

https://twitter.com/HomelandKen/status/1304514191668187136

@WitnessBorder @ReichlinMelnick @charanya_k @AmyMaldonadoLaw

Last week after observing deportations to Guatemala ramp up almost 2x I hypothesized that they may accepting more if deportees had either certificates of recovery from Covid or a negative test. I may have been right. @WitnessBorder es.noticias.yahoo.com/guatemala-reci… Since August 27 the number of detainees in isolation or monitoring dropped from 850 to 468 which I thought might connect to the increased deportation flights. Server all days if flights also saw decreases in I & M #s

View of deportation to Mexico City from the ground and deportee. We witnessed 29 ICE Air flights in July and in August to 6 different cities in interior MX. Today Santiago de Queretaro added to rotation with 2 flights on the way. 8 flight/wk. hppr.org/post/migrants-… “They are expulsions,” Jacome said. “There are also some [migrants] that have been detained for three, four months, and then there are others that are being detained because of COVID and expelled right away.”

A great article in National Catholic Reporter on our @WitnessBorder witness of how ICE Air continues to seed and spread COVID through July with 2,808 likely ICE Air flights and 536 deportation flights. ncronline.org/news/coronavir… @jacobsoboroff @priscialva @MHackman @ALT_uscis @WitnessBorder @acaldwellwsj @ReichlinMelnick @camiloreports @marcela_elisa @JamesMartinSJ @palabrasdeabajo @HispanicCaucus @jimenezlmp

9 deportation flights to Guatemala in the last 9 ICE Air flight days. Not since the week of March 9 has this happened. On a flight last week of 60 unaccompanied children it’s been reported 8 tested positive for COVID -exportation continues @WitnessBorder apnews.com/433ab6247a2588… .@palabrasdeabajo

ICE Air this am from Phx to San Diego and El Paso to Brownsville. Next to Mex City for each?Expulsion flights along border perhaps? We will withness and report. @WitnessBorder Yes. Right on BRO to MEX.

Yesterday we reported on 2ICE Air to Mex City. Unusual. Suspected interior flights again .They are are deporting(expelling) Mexican Nationals into the interior again. Last time was before CDC order and to Guadalajara then. #witnessattheborder apnews.com/613fccdaad70f5… The comment was from CPB not ICE. Perhaps implies expulsions? And to lesson burden on border towns.