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Did You Know? Immigration and Customs Enforcement Has Its Own Airline Operation

ICE Air is the little-known, one-way ticket transportation arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE Air relies on a network of contractors. The biggest was CSI Aviation of Albuquerque, New Mexico — whose contract with Homeland Security swelled from $88 to $96 million this year. In July, CSI says the ICE Air contract was awarded to a different company. So far this fiscal year, it’s $107 million over budget, NPR reports. 
ICE Air Operations (IAO) is the air transportation arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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ICE Air, Flying Deportees Home, $107M Over Budget
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Planes chartered by ICE Air Operations, the division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that coordinates the transportation and deportation of detained immigrants, fly more than 100,000 people back to their home countries every year
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  • IAO facilitates the transportation and removal of aliens via commercial flights; and since 2006, it has transported and/or removed hundreds of thousands of aliens using air charter services.

  • IAO procures the majority of its charter flight services from vendors through the General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule. IAO chartered aircraft are a combination of Boeing 737s and MD-80s, capable of transporting 135 aliens
  • Mexican nationals ordered removed from the United States travel on domestic flights from various U.S. cities to Southern tier cities such as San Diego, Calif. and Brownsville, Texas. They are then bused across the U.S.-Mexico border.
  • Other foreign nationals ordered removed are flown from various U.S. cities or IAO hub cities such as Mesa, Ariz., San Antonio, Texas, Alexandria, La., and Miami, Fla., to Central and South America, and other countries.
  • Blogger Note:
    This information from https://www.ice.gov was last Reviewed/Updated: 07/07/2016
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    Here's a story by Rafael Carranza from 28 April of last year:
    How much does it cost to deport one migrant? It depends
    ". . . Detention is the largest expense
    Detention is by far the costliest part of deporting an undocumented immigrant, said David Bier, an immigration policy analyst with the libertarian CATO Institute.
    ā€œYou have to pay to monitor them around the clock, you have to pay to feed them every single day, you have to tend to their other needs, health and so forth,ā€ he said. ā€œSo it’s an extremely expensive project to detain everybody they arrest.ā€
    It costs on average about $180 a day to detain an individual, with the average length of detention at approximately 30 days, according to the government's most recent data. Based on those figures, an average immigration detention costs $5,400.
    ā€œThe only thing that comes close is the costs of actually hiring the agents to do the arrests,ā€ Bier said.
    Federal law requires ICE to keep all of its 34,000 detention beds full. Trump’s executive order calls for increased detention space on the U.S.-Mexico border. . .
     
    Link > https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2017/04/28/deportation-costs-illegal-immigration/99541736/
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