Report
Published on October 19, 2026
Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics, many of which are unlawful, and undoubtedly cruel, to achieve this objective, including expanding the use of expedited removal, sending people from the United States to offshore detention facilities at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, terminating protected legal statuses, disappearing people without due process, ramping up interior enforcement, and forcibly transferring individuals to other countries of which they are not citizens, where they have experienced grave human rights abuses. Federal courts have determined many of these actions to be unlawful and carried out with little to no transparency, while thousands of people’s lives are uprooted from communities across the country, families separated, and their rights systematically violated.
ICE Flight Monitor responds to this lawlessness and lack of information by using publicly available aviation data to monitor and document flights conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including deportation flights and domestic transfers between U.S. detention centers and deportation staging facilities. To date, the project has tracked 66,000+ flights since 2020. ICE Flight Monitor publishes monthly reports, tracks critical flights in real time, and provides updates on new developments through social media (@ICEFlightM; @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social). Additionally, our new public interactive ICE Flight Monitor Dashboard enables users to visualize common routes and patterns, track historical deportation flight trends, and look up recent deportation flights to any country.
Read the IFM September 2026 Report by clicking the link below.
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