Half the Answer #62: ICE Flights and Accountability in Journalism

Caitlin and Trent talk with journalist Gillian Brockell about her work tracking the flights and airline companies that move people in unsafe conditions to third-party recipient countries, where they will be imprisoned, mistreated, tortured, and possibly sent to their country of origin in violation of international law.

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Resources:

ICE flight monitor https://humanrightsfirst.org/ice-flight-monitor/

Unsafe Conditions on Deportation planes: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

Gillian "interferes" in illegal ICE flight https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3lpnjho77jc25

Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs) autobiography https://bookshop.org/a/115699/9780486419312

Protest Key Lime Air Jan. 31 in Alamosa https://arkvalleyvoice.com/demonstration-against-key-lime-airs-ice-connections-set-for-january-31-in-alamosa/

Key Lime Air https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/12/28/cu-boulder-keeps-key-lime-air-contract-as-denver-ends-its-deal-over-ice-flights/

Denver Air Connections https://cnycentral.com/news/nation-world/denver-colorado-city-council-rejects-airline-contract-for-its-association-with-president-donald-trumps-administration-ice-immigration-agenda

Gillian's Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social

What is ICE Air? https://gillianbrockell.ghost.io/what-is-ice-air/