Privately run deportation flights have generated troubling reports of passenger mistreatment and in-flight emergencies.
A woman in shackles boards the first deportation flight of undocumented Venezuelans after a U.S.-Venezuelan agreement in Harlingen, Texas, on October 18, 2023.A closed-circuit video camera zoomed in on the tarmac of Seattle’s Boeing Field one recent afternoon, buffeted by 30-mile-an-hour gusts as it captured the arrival of a charter jet. The jet rolled to a stop alongside two buses.
When detainees began emerging from the camera’s blind spot, their ankles, waists and wrists appeared to be shackled together, and they seemed unable to hold the handrails as they shuffled up the wet stairs in the wind. The University of Washington Center for Human Rights has spent the past six years trying to shed light on deportation operations, even as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its contractors and subcontractors have taken steps that shield their activities from view. Now the human rights center is in close contact with the observers at Boeing Field, hoping their weekly vigil will yield new clues and drive further research.
In April 2019, the center published this trove of raw data and a pair of reports cataloging a history of in-flight abuses and potential due process violations. A game of cat and mouse had begun, pitting the Trump administration — and later the Biden administration — against local sanctuary advocates. Second, ICE changed its flight numbering system. The human rights center had disclosed in its 2019 report that it used the federally assigned prefix “RPN-” for “repatriate” to plug information into free flight-tracking websites and obtain a plane’s tail number and ownership. So ICE dropped the “RPN-” and adopted the call signs of its various charter companies.
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