
It Could Happen Here Weekly 192
Behind the Bastards
Deportation Flights and Humanitarian Concerns
This chapter explores the surge in military deportation flights operated by Aircraft Transport Service, particularly focusing on controversial removals to African countries amid political pressures. It highlights troubling cases, such as the deportation of an innocent Iraqi man, and examines the humanitarian crisis in Mauritania, along with safety risks faced by shackled migrants. The discussion also critiques the lack of transparency in ICE operations and the distressing treatment of individuals during deportation flights.
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage
- Tracking ICE Removal Flights
- How LA Resisted ICE
- Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26
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Sources/Links:
How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage
https://transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com/
Social Media: @thefreeradical.org, @davidforbes.bsky.social, @madycast.com
Tracking ICE Removal Flights
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ice-may-have-secretly-done-more-third-country-removals-than-previously-known/
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/new-ices-eswatini-flight-went-through-us-base-in-djibouti-americans-stationed-there-are-angry/
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-call-to-action-for-airline-workers-to-stop-ices-deportation-machine/
https://thedawn.com.ss/2025/07/10/govt-places-8-u-s-deportees-behind-bars-in-juba/
witnessattheborder.org
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights
https://www.pogo.org/investigations/meet-the-ice-contractor-running-deportation-flights
https://capitalandmain.com/a-drunk-mechanic-shackled-immigrants-a-crash-landing-the-dangers-of-ice-flights
https://alexplank.substack.com/p/photos-shackled-migrant-escorted
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How LA Resisted ICE
@acatwithnews.bsky.social
@melbuer.bsky.social
Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna218693
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch/
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26
Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose
https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038
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https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4250988/
https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/2022-02/DODIG-2022-064.pdf
https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/232598p.pdf
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/afghan-refugee-fort-bliss/
https://ecf.cacd.uscourts.gov/doc1/031145354889
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rumeysa-ozturk-what-i-witnessed-inside-an-ice-womens-prison
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/npr-pbs-affiliates-worry-congress-clawbacks-00465850
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