McKenzie Funk

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Reporter at ProPublica

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Connecticut AG Warns Airline: Deportation Flights Jeopardize Its Tax Breaks

2 weeks ago | truthout.org | McKenzie Funk

Democratic lawmakers are also working to expand the state’s sanctuary law to penalize companies for working with ICE. By McKenzie Funk , ProPublica Published April 25, 2025 An Avelo Airlines plane is seen at Hollywood Burbank Airport on April 28, 2021, in Burbank, California. Joe Scarnici / Getty Images for Avelo Air This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
Avelo Airlines, set to run deportation flights, faces backlash in CT

2 weeks ago | ctmirror.org | McKenzie Funk |Gabby DeBenedictis

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Connecticut’s attorney general has sent his second warning in a month to the low-cost carrier Avelo Airlines, telling the startup it has jeopardized tax breaks and other local support by agreeing to conduct deportation flights for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE Air Has a New Contractor. This State Is Asking How It Will Protect the Detainees on Board.

2 weeks ago | propublica.org | McKenzie Funk |Jeff Ernsthausen |Mica Rosenberg |Avi Asher-Schapiro

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Connecticut’s attorney general has sent his second warning in a month to the low-cost carrier Avelo Airlines, telling the startup it has jeopardized tax breaks and other local support by agreeing to conduct deportation flights for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Trump’s DOJ Has Frozen Police Reform Work. Advocates Fear More Abuse in Departments Across the Country.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Topher Sanders |Hannah Allam |T. Christian Miller |McKenzie Funk

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When news broke in January that the Trump Justice Department was freezing significant work on civil rights litigation, including police reform cases, attention immediately focused on two cities: Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky.
From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps

1 month ago | truthdig.com | McKenzie Funk

This story was originally published by ProPublica. In June 2005, a former employee from the Federal Emergency Management Agency toured the grounds of the Bonnaroo music festival in rural Tennessee. He wasn’t there to see the headliners, which included Dave Matthews Band and the lead singer of the popular jam band Phish.
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”

1 month ago | tntribune.com | McKenzie Funk

Flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers. Then Global Crossing Airlines started expanding into federal deportation flights. Some flight attendants said they ignored orders not to interact with detainees. “I’d say ‘hola’ back,” said one flight attendant. “We’re not jerks.”Flight attendants received training in how to evacuate passengers but said they weren’t told how to usher out detainees whose hands and legs were bound by shackles.
En el interior de los vuelos de deportación de ICE Air: “¿Se podría evacuar a tiempo a más de cien pasajeros encadenados?”

1 month ago | hechoencalifornia1010.com | McKenzie Funk

El vuelo de deportación sobrevolaba México cuando estalló el caos en la parte trasera del avión, recuerda la auxiliar de vuelo. Una niña se había desplomado. Tenía fiebre alta y su respiración era entrecortada, frenética. La auxiliar de vuelo, una joven apodada Lala, cogió la bombona de oxígeno de emergencia del avión y corrió entre filas de inmigrantes encadenados hasta alcanzar la niña y sus padres.
“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights

1 month ago | propublica.org | J. David McSwane |Hannah Allam |Ginny Monk |McKenzie Funk

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On Feb. 10, more than a dozen Department of Homeland Security officials joined a video conference to discuss an obscure, sparsely funded program overseen by its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
En el interior de los vuelos de deportación de ICE Air: “¿Se podría evacuar a tiempo a más de cien pasajeros encadenados?”

1 month ago | propublica.org | McKenzie Funk |Ginny Monk |Nicole Foy |Lomi Kriel

El vuelo de deportación sobrevolaba México cuando estalló el caos en la parte trasera del avión, recuerda la auxiliar de vuelo. Una niña se había desplomado. Tenía fiebre alta y su respiración era entrecortada, frenética. La auxiliar de vuelo, una joven apodada Lala, cogió la bombona de oxígeno de emergencia del avión y corrió entre filas de inmigrantes encadenados hasta alcanzar la niña y sus padres.
En el interior de los vuelos de deportación de ICE Air: “¿Se podría evacuar a tiempo a más de cien pasajeros encadenados?”

1 month ago | elpais.com | McKenzie Funk |Sarah L. Voisin |LM Otero

Siete tripulantes de vuelo que han trabajado para la aerolínea GlobalX muestran a ProPublica una parte desconocida del proceso de deportación McKenzie Funk ProPublica El vuelo de deportación sobrevolaba México cuando estalló el caos en la parte trasera del avión, recuerda la auxiliar de vuelo. Una niña se había desplomado. Tenía fiebre alta y su respiración era entrecortada, frenética.

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