So it's interesting - this isn't new if you're in aviation, the redditors on /r/flying, /r/aviation, etc basically summed this up but it's just interesting that the floor to post an article is what is presented here. Just eerie the closer you are to a subject the more you see through the news.

But basically, yeah if you also go on the pilot facebook groups, you'd see alot of gossip about the flights happening and such too.

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Does it seem like hacktivism is at an all time low? In the 2010s there were a lot of groups calling themselves anonymous which attacked petty tyrants at the state and local level who were trying to cover up crimes. Now we're diving headfirst into a fascist takeover of American government and it feels like the only hackers you hear of anymore are criminals or state actors from eastern europe

If ICE, subcontractors, and the federal government and are doing nothing wrong, why do they need to hide?

Authorities’ dereliction of the duty to secure the border for decades is hard to fathom. There’s literally 40 years of deportation backlog.

That this program is frustrating goals of “La Resistencia” - the source for the article - is probably a sign that the program is a good one.

> Though flights have been a part of US immigration operation for years, the speed and scale of the ICE program today is unprecedented. Since Trump's inauguration, there have been more than 1,000 deportation flights to other countries, up 15% over the January to July period last year, according to Witness at Border.

What this is really saying: Trump administration continues long-standing US government policy (incl. previous Democratic administrations) of deporting flights , improving effectiveness by 15%.

A couple of questions arise for me:

a) is this a good policy?

b) is the execution being done in a legal manner (due process, etc.)?

c) why did the Democratic Party not advertise their immigration enforcement to the electorate, when that was probably the most foundational issue the opposition ran on?

With the rise of these tracking services a cat-and-mouse-situation was foreseeable all along, especially for security related type of flights.

Probably already happening for intelligence operations. I assume the obfuscation makes sense for deportation-flights, but one could argue that keeping it transparent would be a political win. So what might be the reason? Keeping the involved staff safe?

I'm not surprised this was flagged.

Forget ICE though, that this anonymity is allowed is rather frightening.

I'm predicting headlines in the coming years about drugs being flown into the U.S. under cover of ICE flights.

(Some of us can remember the drug flights in the 1980's that paid for arming the Nicaraguan Contras.)

Considering there are 14 million illegal immigrants left in the US, and if 0.5 million new ones enter each year, Trump will have to deport 4 million each year if he wants them gone by the time his term is over. I think the rate is going to climb heavily from 1 million a year.