ICE deportation flights end at Dallas Love Field, shift to Fort Worth airport – CBS News

ICE deportation flights end at Dallas Love Field, shift to Fort Worth airport  CBS News

ICE deportation flights are no longer operating out of Dallas Love Field, that's according to the agency, city officials, and activists.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses charter and commercial flights to deport immigrants and move detainees between detention centers around the country. Activists who have protested those flights for months said the operations at Love Field have now moved to Fort Worth.Videos taken by activists and shared with CBS News Texas show men, women, and children being loaded onto planes at Love Field, some of them shackled at the hands and feet. They're all undocumented immigrants, being deported by ICE."It's horror in plain sight," said Lanie Olmo, an activist with No Love for ICE Air.Since March, No Love for ICE Air has been monitoring ICE charter flights landing and departing at the airport.

The group said they have monitored 215 ICE flights in 2026. Activists said they have witnessed at least 2,606 people being shuffled between detention facilities inside the United States across 46 flights, and another 1,166 people being deported to Mexico across 12 separate flights. Now, they're celebrating the end of these flights at Love Field after months of pushback."It feels like a modern-day slave ship when you see somebody with their wrists, waist, and ankles, shackled," said John Putnam, a flight tracker with the group. "It has