Press Release
Published on July 16, 2026
Today, Human Rights First launched its new ICE Flight Monitor Dashboard, an interactive digital tool that provides visual insight into recent flight data. The launch coincides with the release of the ICE Flight Monitor's (IFM) June report, which tracked 288 removal flights, largely driven by a continued surge in removal flights to Mexico amid a near-total pause on deportations of Mexican nationals across the U.S-Mexico land border.
The highly-anticipated dashboard offers a dynamic view of ICE Air flights tracked by the project, enabling users to visualize common routes, weekly patterns of shuffle and deportation flights, third country transfer flights, and track historical flight trends dating back to 2020.
“Ultimately, our hope is that our new ICE Flight Monitor Dashboard will help attorneys and advocates defend human rights amid the Trump administration’s cruel and lawless deportation campaign,” said Savi Arvey, Director of Research and Analysis, Refugee and Immigrant Rights at Human Rights First. ”By giving the public direct access to recent flight data, we are bringing greater transparency to the entire ICE air system, which currently operates in the darkness, without due process, and with very little accountability.”
In 288 removal flights tracked in the IFM June 2026 report, findings show a continued escalation of forced third country transfers, with 15 confirmed flights reaching at least nine countries in June alone, including to the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Moldova, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and Paraguay.
IFM also reports that no removal flights to Venezuela have been tracked by the project since June 24, when an ICE Air flight removed 146 Venezuelans just hours before the devastating earthquakes struck the country. Additionally, reporting showed that the French national team used a GlobalX plane at least four times in June to travel between U.S. World Cup matches. ICE Flight Monitor has tracked that GlobalX has carried out 1,000 ICE flights since 2022.
Read the June 2026 report and explore the dashboard here.
June’s key findings include:
U.S. removal flights reached 288 flights to 36 countries, largely driven by a continued increase in removal flights to Mexico, as part of the Trump administration's cruel and lawless mass deportation campaign. The spike in removal flights over recent months does not necessarily indicate that more individuals are being removed, only that the quantity of flights is increasing. Guatemala and Honduras continue to receive large numbers of removal flights, together accounting for roughly 29% of June’s total.
U.S. removal flights to central and southern Mexico surged to a monthly high of 112 in June as deportations of Mexican nationals over the U.S.-Mexico land border appears to remain largely paused. U.S. removal flights to Mexico have ramped up dramatically since mid-April, reaching a pace of 26 per week, far above the weekly average of five during the first three months of 2026. Like the previous two months, June’s spike appears to be linked to a near-total pause in deportations of Mexican nationals over the U.S.-Mexico land border.
ICE Flight Monitor has not tracked any removal flights to Venezuela since June 24, when an ICE Air flight removed Venezuelan nationals just hours before devastating earthquakes struck the country. The flight removed 146 Venezuelan nationals—including 120 men, 19 women, and seven children—whose fate, identities, and current whereabouts has not been publicly disclosed following their arrival and reception near the coast.
There was an escalation of forced third country transfers with a first-time flight to the Central African Republic (CAR), and repeated flights to Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Honduras, Moldova, Panama, Paraguay, and Sierra Leone. In June, the first ICE Air flight carrying 18 third country nationals from Afghanistan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Cameroon, and Iran arrived in Bangui, CAR. The Trump administration also conducted a single ICE Air flight forcibly removing 12 third country nationals to Sierra Leone and 11 third country nationals to Equatorial Guinea. Additionally, June saw repeated flights to Moldova, Ghana, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Panama, Ecuador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
See Banished by Bargain: Third Country Deportation Watch for more information on third country transfers, including country agreements.
