Posted on 05/30/2026 6:45:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Guardian claims ICE's 2025 flight surge caused 335,000 tonnes of CO2 — but that's just 0.05% of U.S. airline emissions.
Global warming is getting worse because of the deportations conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), says the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper. [some emphasis, links added]
“We’ve seen a staggering increase in all U.S. immigration [enforcement] flights,” Savitri Arvey, a research director at the pro-migration Human Rights First group, told the newspaper for a May 26 article, which then claimed:
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) air operations pumped into the air an estimated 335,876 tonnes (370,240 US tons) of carbon emissions in 2025, up 88 percent from the year before.”
But a quick comparison to the U.S. domestic airline industry shows that ICE [flights] produce just one-thousandth of the greenhouse gases produced by the domestic airline industry, and one two-thousandths of all aircraft emissions in 2017.
For those extra emissions, ordinary Americans get the benefits from deporting many of President Joe Biden’s economic migrants, including lower crime, less diversity, higher wages, cheaper housing, and more citizen influence in their society and nation.
ICE is operating roughly three times as many flights every month in 2026 as it did in 2024 — roughly 1,800 flights vs 600 flights — partly because ICE often transports illegals from northern states to holding centers in Texas and other southern states.
Migrants usually have to be detained for several weeks before ICE can get them through the various hurdles created by pro-migration progressives.
Immigration advocates remain desperate to inflate the minority opposition to President Donald Trump’s deportation policy.
“The pollution that these flights cause is causing harm to every single family in the United States.” Brett Heinz, global policy coordinator at the pro-migration American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), told the Guardian‘s writer, Alexandra Villareal.
She formerly worked for a pro-migration group, the National Immigration Forum.
“When we try to inflict suffering on immigrants… it also inflicts suffering on ourselves, on everyone,” he said, adding, “There’s no one that escapes when we’re trying to increase human misery.”
Meanwhile, Americans are speaking up about the crimes inflicted by the very illegal migrants defended by American progressives and the U.K.’s progressive newspaper.
Ping!.................
“...ordinary Americans get the benefits from deporting many of President Joe Biden’s economic migrants, including lower crime, less diversity, higher wages, cheaper housing, and more citizen influence in their society and nation.”
Not to mention a half trillion a year saved without them on a hundred different gravy train programs.
I suppose setting them adrift in the ocean on a raft with a sail is the preferred solution. /sarc
She formerly worked for a pro-migration group, the National Immigration Forum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Immigration_Forum
This is getting too easy. Close all three international airport entrances to New jersey and send customs to ICE protection.
The Guardian needs to GF themselves. This is stupidity at such an incredible level.
Yep, ping .....
The Guardian has been a mentally ill publication for as long can remember, perhaps they ought to be more concerned about the UK being flooded these days as oceans rise to new heights.
But in the long term they go back to areas that produce less carbon dioxide per person, far outweighing the carbon from one flight. Why does the Brett Heinz hate Mother Earth so much?
Laughter is your best medicine.
I remember these same people raising hell about the carbon emissions from Biden’s migrant flights INTO the US, then all over the interior to “settle” them. /s
Gee, I wonder how concerned the lefty fakenewspaper was when Biden was flying them in?
Meawhile here in New York, we are a day away from June and it’s 42 degrees and AOC will still push the Gorebull warming scam over the scientific conclusions of atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen
maybe let them walk
Smells like desperation.
I have a solution if The Guardian believe that Bull____, and that is to host an ILLEGAL FAMILY for a year in their own home. Give them a key to your front door - or better yet - keep the front door unlocked. I mean, you want to help them, so why not help them in your house...
I would tend to agree with everything you say there.
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