Tracking Trump's Deportation Flights: Ex-J.P. Morgan Exec Reveals All
The proposal by the Trump administration to revive the AlienEnemiesAct of 1798 had been under consideration well before March 15, although the exact timeline remained unclear. On that day, immigration lawyers headed to federal court aiming to prevent the government from invoking this exceptional wartime power, which permits deportations without proper legal procedures. At the time, there were minimal indications suggesting that the White House planned to utilize this act to transport groups of Venezuelans via airplane to be housed in a detention facility in El Salvador. The initial individual to inform the public about these flight operations wasn’t someone from an official capacity, legal background, or press; rather, it was Tom Cartwright—a former J.P. Morgan executive residing in Ohio. He posted on social media, "TWO EXTREMELY UNUSUAL FLIGHTS WITH HEAVY ICING CONDITIONS heading from Harlingen to El Salvador." Noting this irregularity, he mentioned that U.S. Immigrati...