JD Vance's campaign plane converted into a charter for migrant deportations

After Donald Trump chose him as his running mate in July 2024, “ JD Vance crisscrossed the country giving speeches in which he, like Trump, demonized immigrants and promised to implement a program of mass deportations of illegal immigrants if elected,” recalls The Arizona Mirror . The Boeing 737 he used to travel the country during the election campaign “is now being used to deport illegal immigrants,” reveals the local daily.

The plane has in fact made “at least 16 flights to Central and South American countries” this year to return undocumented immigrants arrested on US soil as part of the mass expulsion program of migrants implemented by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for customs and border control.

The 22-year-old plane is part of the so-called 'ICE Air' fleet, which is made up of planes from several charter airlines and other private aviation companies across the country with which the federal government has contracts and which are responsible for transporting migrants arrested on U.S. soil for deportation.

Even more astonishing, “even before the plane was emblazoned with the logo of Donald Trump and JD Vance's election campaign in July 2024, it had already been used to deport illegal immigrants,” notably in 2018 and 2020, during Donald Trump's first term, the newspaper continues.

The Trump administration also announced that it would further intensify its anti-immigration campaign by setting new quotas for federal ICE agents, who “must now make more than 3,000 migrant arrests per day,” reports the British daily The Guardian , in an effort to meet Donald Trump's goal of deporting more than 1 million illegal immigrants from the United States this year.