Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash for Aiding Trump's Deportation Campaign

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : According to FlightAware, the plane is expected to arrive in the early afternoon at Alexandria International Airport in Louisiana, one of five locations where ICE conducts regular flights.
56% : The company, which serves airports in liberal cities on the coasts, has agreed to operate chartered flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
56% : By Mr. Cartwright's count, which is based on a variety of sources, ICE operated nearly 8,000 flights over the year that ended in April, most of them within the United States.
54% : Despite weeks of protests from customers and elected officials, Avelo's first flight for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement appears to have departed on Monday morning from Mesa, Ariz., according to data from the flight-tracking services FlightAware and Flightradar24.
50% : "After extensive deliberations with our board of directors and our senior leaders, we concluded this new opportunity was too valuable not to pursue," Mr. Levy wrote in the email on April 3, a day after Avelo signed the agreement with ICE.
48% : There is little public information about those flights, which ICE primarily arranges through a broker, CSI Aviation, said Tom Cartwright, a retired banking executive who has tracked the flights for years as a volunteer with Witness at the Border, an immigrants rights group.
42% : The Democratic governors of Connecticut and Delaware denounced Avelo, while lawmakers in Connecticut and New York released proposals to withdraw state support, including a tax break on jet fuel purchases, from companies that work with ICE.
42% : " Avelo said that under its deal with ICE, it would operate flights within the United States and abroad, using three Boeing 737-800 jets.
40% : While the military carries out some deportation flights, ICE relies heavily on private airlines.
37% : Avelo declined to comment on the flight and ICE did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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