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Where Sports and Deportation Meet: ICE Is Removing People on the Same Planes Used to Transport Teams

What do the New England Patriots, Houston Rockets, private charter companies, and ICE Air Operations have in common? Find out here.

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Todd Miller
Sep 15, 2022
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A Honduran boards a deportation plane bound for San Pedro Sula in February 2013. (Photo Credit: John Moore/Getty Images)

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On June 17 a plane painted with the red, white, and blue colors of the six-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots lifted off from Harlingen, Texas. This plane, however, wasn’t going to deliver the football team to a game. It was…

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