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This plane has left Alexandria, LA, again and is currently refueling in Bangor. Migrants onboard have been shackled for at least 34 hours. Story updated.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

NEW: An ICE flight headed for Moldova turned around over the Atlantic Ocean yesterday and flew back to an ICE hub, returning 15 hours after it left. We don’t know why. Video I obtained from the scene shows 11 exhausted and shackled people disembark. gillianbrockell.com/why-did-this...

gillianbrockell.comWhy did this ICE flight turn around over the Atlantic Ocean?Video shows 11 exhausted and shackled people arrive back at ICE camp airport 15 hours after they left.

5/8/26, 5:37 pm87 reposts132 likes

Joysea Crew

@joyseacrew.bsky.social

5 Aug

Moldova? Where the U.S. Department of State Travel Advisories maintain a Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution) or Level 3 advisory overall due to regional tensions and spillover risks from Ukraine? We’re sending folks to an unsafe, war torn area? I’d turn around, too. 🤬

Amy

@amyord.bsky.social

5 Aug

I am a commercial airline pilot, I have been for 24 years... the idea that any pilot would allow this behavior and fly these airplanes is absolutely disgusting to me. They are a stain on my profession.

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

5 Aug

Total abdication of their pilot-in-command authority

Amy

@amyord.bsky.social

5 Aug

💯 .. it’s the Captain’s airplane. She/he decides what does or does not go on on that plane and they are pathetically giving that authority away. Or they agree with it. Either way - Disgraceful.

Michellemybelle

@michellemitch.bsky.social

5 Aug

The cruelty is just staggering.