Meet the companies flying deportation missions for ICE.

From charter deals to billion-dollar contracts, these private airlines are quietly fueling America’s deportation machine.

Every day, flights leave U.S. airports not bound for vacation spots or business hubs, but for places like Guatemala City, San Salvador, and Bogotá. These aren’t commercial trips. They’re deportation runs, and the planes aren’t flown by government pilots. They’re operated by private companies profiting directly from human removal.

This week, a leaked internal schedule from ICE Air was provided exclusively to us. The document, marked FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY, outlines deportation missions for the week of July 7 through 13, 2025. It shows more than two dozen scheduled flights, routed across the United States and into Latin America, each marked by coded flight numbers, blocked times, and discreet transfers. The leak confirms what we’ve long suspected, that ICE’s air operation is not only active, but massive, and it relies entirely on private enterprise.

This leak is the latest win in our ICE List project, a public archive of agents, air missions, staging sites, and contractors involved in America’s deportation system. Our mission is simple: expose the infrastructure behind ICE, one name, one flight, one airport at a time. Through a network of whistleblowers, researchers, and volunteers, we’re tracking the machinery that moves people across borders against their will.