Tom Cartwright
@tomcartwright.bsky.social
Volunteer Immigration advocate. Retired JPMorgan. Tracker of ICE Air flights.
2/3 Below is a comment with a little more detail.
August 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
2/3 Below is a comment with a little more detail.
After making a deportation stop in Laos RCH113 is about to complete the route with a deportation stop in Hanoi Vietnam.
August 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
After making a deportation stop in Laos RCH113 is about to complete the route with a deportation stop in Hanoi Vietnam.
Plane as of 6:20 am eastern time
August 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Plane as of 6:20 am eastern time
Plane just left Hawaii. Probably another fuel stop coming up.
August 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Plane just left Hawaii. Probably another fuel stop coming up.
At 4:11 am eastern not visible over the Pacific on the way to Hawaii
August 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
At 4:11 am eastern not visible over the Pacific on the way to Hawaii
Update: after around 6 hours at Gitmo the plane continue to what I think will be a fuel/ops stop in Hawaii.
August 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Update: after around 6 hours at Gitmo the plane continue to what I think will be a fuel/ops stop in Hawaii.
✈️👀 ✈️👀 Likely deport on military C17 RCH113, plane 04-4131 from Alexandria to GITMO and possibly to Vietnam and Laos. DHS criminal memo 3-weeks ago noted at least 5 Vietnamese at Gitmo. 1-2 fuel stops on the way so 1-2 days. Last deport to these countries was 25 -27 May on OMNI ICE charter.
August 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
✈️👀 ✈️👀 Likely deport on military C17 RCH113, plane 04-4131 from Alexandria to GITMO and possibly to Vietnam and Laos. DHS criminal memo 3-weeks ago noted at least 5 Vietnamese at Gitmo. 1-2 fuel stops on the way so 1-2 days. Last deport to these countries was 25 -27 May on OMNI ICE charter.
✈️👀 Small jet (N999AH; max 16 pax) deport from Phoenix to Ghana with fuel stop in Senegal there and back. Last Ghana deport military on 7/17 and before small jet 6/18. Senegal may have been deport - almost always stops for fuel so difficult to tell. Only 1 other stop, possible.
August 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
✈️👀 Small jet (N999AH; max 16 pax) deport from Phoenix to Ghana with fuel stop in Senegal there and back. Last Ghana deport military on 7/17 and before small jet 6/18. Senegal may have been deport - almost always stops for fuel so difficult to tell. Only 1 other stop, possible.
✈️👀 Likely deport on military RCH856, 08-8200 to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan from Alexandria. The first observed to Kazakhstan but have been deports to Uzbekistan every 2-4 mo since Oct 2023 on mix of big and.
August 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
✈️👀 Likely deport on military RCH856, 08-8200 to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan from Alexandria. The first observed to Kazakhstan but have been deports to Uzbekistan every 2-4 mo since Oct 2023 on mix of big and.
✈️👀✈️👀 Today: Deport on military flight RCH659, 98-0052 to Brazil today, the 71st military deport observed. Last to Brazil on military was 2 July. Watching another potential military deport. Also, a Coast Guard transfer from Everglades to Alexandria. The 7th...
August 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
✈️👀✈️👀 Today: Deport on military flight RCH659, 98-0052 to Brazil today, the 71st military deport observed. Last to Brazil on military was 2 July. Watching another potential military deport. Also, a Coast Guard transfer from Everglades to Alexandria. The 7th...
✈️👀 Today a traditional ICE Air transfer from Everglades - to El Paso and Harlingen. 2nd trad ICE Air (1st to El Paso) combined with 4 Coast Guard observed, 3 to Alexandria and 1 to Harlingen. NO flights observed as direct deports out of country. Most likely to stage people for deports.
August 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
✈️👀 Today a traditional ICE Air transfer from Everglades - to El Paso and Harlingen. 2nd trad ICE Air (1st to El Paso) combined with 4 Coast Guard observed, 3 to Alexandria and 1 to Harlingen. NO flights observed as direct deports out of country. Most likely to stage people for deports.
7/8 Large removal increases: Honduras up 6 to 49, Colombia up 4 to 9, and Guatemala up 3 to 54. Large decreases: Other countries down 16 to 1 (many small decreases).
August 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
7/8 Large removal increases: Honduras up 6 to 49, Colombia up 4 to 9, and Guatemala up 3 to 54. Large decreases: Other countries down 16 to 1 (many small decreases).
6/8 Avg deports per day in July: 6.7 compares to prior 3-mo average of 5.8, up .9 (16%), and 4.7 in July 2024, up 2 (43%) per day. Total flights per day: 39, down 1 (3%) per day from June, up 11 per day (39%) over prior 6-mo avg of 28, and up 17 (77%) per day over July 2024.
August 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
6/8 Avg deports per day in July: 6.7 compares to prior 3-mo average of 5.8, up .9 (16%), and 4.7 in July 2024, up 2 (43%) per day. Total flights per day: 39, down 1 (3%) per day from June, up 11 per day (39%) over prior 6-mo avg of 28, and up 17 (77%) per day over July 2024.
5/8 Since inauguration: 5,962 total flights, an increase of 1,721 (41%) over the same period in 2024. Deportation flights totaled 1,036, up 152 (15%) over the same period in 2024.
August 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
5/8 Since inauguration: 5,962 total flights, an increase of 1,721 (41%) over the same period in 2024. Deportation flights totaled 1,036, up 152 (15%) over the same period in 2024.
4/8 July: 727 domestic shuffle flights - highest level since I started in January 2020. Shuffle flights totaled 2,022 over the past 3 months, up 956 (90%) over same period in 2024. July was 240 (49%) over the prior 6-mo avg.
August 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
4/8 July: 727 domestic shuffle flights - highest level since I started in January 2020. Shuffle flights totaled 2,022 over the past 3 months, up 956 (90%) over same period in 2024. July was 240 (49%) over the prior 6-mo avg.
3/8 July: 207 removal flights, under 209 in June the highest level since I started in January 2020. Removal totaled 606 the past 3 months, up 167 (38%) over same period in 2024. July was 58 (39%) above the prior 6-mo avg.
August 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
3/8 July: 207 removal flights, under 209 in June the highest level since I started in January 2020. Removal totaled 606 the past 3 months, up 167 (38%) over same period in 2024. July was 58 (39%) above the prior 6-mo avg.
✈️👀 1/8 Total ICE Air flights documented since Jan 2020 reached 41,014 of which 7,621 were removals. Since increasing mid-May, trends in deports, domestic shuffle, and total flights are reasonably consistent. Exec Summary pages 3-11. witnessattheborder.org/s/ICE-Air-Ju...
August 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
✈️👀 1/8 Total ICE Air flights documented since Jan 2020 reached 41,014 of which 7,621 were removals. Since increasing mid-May, trends in deports, domestic shuffle, and total flights are reasonably consistent. Exec Summary pages 3-11. witnessattheborder.org/s/ICE-Air-Ju...
✈️👀 Military deportation from Phoenix to Pakistan and then Bangladesh over the weekend on a C17. RCH878, plane 08-8203. Unknown how many people were on board. If information becomes avalaible will post here
August 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
✈️👀 Military deportation from Phoenix to Pakistan and then Bangladesh over the weekend on a C17. RCH878, plane 08-8203. Unknown how many people were on board. If information becomes avalaible will post here
✈️👀 ✈️👀 Highly likley Coast Guard plane just completes another lateral transfer from Everglades Detention Camp to Alexandria. The 4th CG lateral (3 Alex and 1 Harlingen) I have observed + a trad ICE AIr (El Paso). I Have observed NO direct deportaion flights from Everglades,
August 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
✈️👀 ✈️👀 Highly likley Coast Guard plane just completes another lateral transfer from Everglades Detention Camp to Alexandria. The 4th CG lateral (3 Alex and 1 Harlingen) I have observed + a trad ICE AIr (El Paso). I Have observed NO direct deportaion flights from Everglades,
Appears NOT to be a migrant transfer flight.
July 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Appears NOT to be a migrant transfer flight.
✈️👀 Coast Guard plane C2711 a C27J Spartan just landed at the Everglades detention camp. Could be supplies or anything…or a lateral flight beginning. Too soon to tell.
July 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
✈️👀 Coast Guard plane C2711 a C27J Spartan just landed at the Everglades detention camp. Could be supplies or anything…or a lateral flight beginning. Too soon to tell.
✈️👀 to summarize. Three traditional ICE Air flights to Gitmo today, each one then continuing to a deportation. One to Honduras, El Salvador, and Colombia. No info on transfers in or out. Before today there were 61 people at Gitmo.
July 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
✈️👀 to summarize. Three traditional ICE Air flights to Gitmo today, each one then continuing to a deportation. One to Honduras, El Salvador, and Colombia. No info on transfers in or out. Before today there were 61 people at Gitmo.
One plane (N530VA) left Gitmo and went to Honduras for a a deportation. A second one (N837VA) is now heading to El Salvador.
July 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
One plane (N530VA) left Gitmo and went to Honduras for a a deportation. A second one (N837VA) is now heading to El Salvador.
Make that now 3. Another Alexandria>Harlingen<Gitmo and unclear if anywhere next yet.
July 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Make that now 3. Another Alexandria>Harlingen<Gitmo and unclear if anywhere next yet.
✈️👀 2 Traditional ICE Air flights to Gitmo today. One Harlingen>Alexandria>Gitmo>deport to Honduras. The other Alexandria> Gitmo and still there at this time. Prior to these flights there were 61 people at Gitmo.
July 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
✈️👀 2 Traditional ICE Air flights to Gitmo today. One Harlingen>Alexandria>Gitmo>deport to Honduras. The other Alexandria> Gitmo and still there at this time. Prior to these flights there were 61 people at Gitmo.