ICE flew detainees to Virginia so the planes could transport agents to D.C. protests. A huge coronav

[SunSeeker]

Source: Washington Post

Full headline: ICE flew detainees to Virginia so the planes could transport agents to D.C. protests. A huge coronavirus outbreak followed.


The Trump administration flew immigrant detainees to Virginia this summer to facilitate the rapid deployment of Homeland Security tactical teams to quell protests in Washington, circumventing restrictions on the use of charter flights for employee travel, according to a current and a former U.S. official.

After the transfer, dozens of the new arrivals tested positive for the novel coronavirus, fueling an outbreak at the Farmville, Va., immigration jail that infected more than 300 inmates, one of whom died.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the agency moved the detainees on “ICE Air” charter flights to avoid overcrowding at detention facilities in Arizona and Florida, a precaution they said was taken because of the pandemic.

But a Department of Homeland Security official with direct knowledge of the operation, and a former ICE official who learned about it from other personnel, said the primary reason for the June 2 transfers was to skirt rules that bar ICE employees from traveling on the charter flights unless detainees are also aboard.
The transfers took place over the objections of ICE officials in the Washington field office, according to testimony at a Farmville town council meeting in August, and at a time when immigration jails elsewhere in the country had plenty of beds available because of a dramatic decrease in border crossings and in-country arrests.





Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/ice-air-farmville-protests-covid/2020/09/11/f70ebe1e-e861-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

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A man died because Trump brought ICE agents to gas peaceful protesters in DC.

[Tumbulu]

1. At least one died

Criminal homicide.

There needs to be a trial and there needs to be justice.

[SunSeeker]

2. Indeed. nt

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[underpants]

4. I didn't know we had an immigration jail in Farmville

Well there’s something we can do this weekend

[SunSeeker]

5. ICE sure knew. Its proximity to DC is clearly why detainees were transferred there.

ICE's excuse was they were trying to alleviate crowding because of coronavirus. But the transfers were from places that had more room than Farmville.

As noted in the article, ICE's own statistics show the facilities the detainees came from were not near capacity on June 1, when the transfers were arranged. For example, CCA Florence, a jail in Arizona with beds for roughly 550 detainees, was only about 35 percent full that day, records show. Yet Farmville was 57 percent full, according to ICE.

[bpj62]

6. Proximity to DC

Farmville is in South Central Virginia and is about 3.5 to 4 hours south of the DC line. If you were truly transferring detainees they should have flown into Richmond, Lynchburg or even Roanoke which are much closer.
This was cleary done to get the ICE thugs into DC to do what they did in Portland. Trump found his private army.

[IronLionZion]

7. This administration doesn't have time for your rules

regulations are killing jobs. Winners just do what they want. Rules are for losers.

I live in DC. Things got much more peaceful when these assholes left. It's almost as if they were causing the violence.

[SunSeeker]

8. Not only were they causing the violence, they were causing Covid-19 outbreaks.

Covid and carnage, a Trumpy two-fer.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. You guys are absolutely right. They want the death of protestors and culling of the herd

[Delmette2.0]

10. Depraved indifference

to the detainees, the ICE agents, the protesters and the general population of D.C.