This month’s GOP spending bill included a $485 million budget hike for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That likely represents a windfall for the many private vendors profiting from the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown — including the shadowy aviation contractors carrying out ICE’s deportation flights.
Inside The Billion-Dollar Business Of Deportation Flights
The recent GOP spending bill will mean more money for ICE — and less transparency for the private airlines making billions on deportation flights.

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Conviasa is the Venezuelan national airline, and therefore not funded by the U.S.