Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 4hThis ICE flight operated by Talon Air is headed for Africa and is a possible third-country removal in progress. 29140
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 8hThis was the first thing I wrote after I left the Washington Post almost three years ago. What a wild ride (to hell) it has been. gillianbrockell.com/one-neat-tri... 418321
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15hwhat do you think these are, my guy? they aren't butter knives! 21273
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful. 11407202
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026Corner office baby! Prime access to both stages at this particular “music” festival. 1220
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026Some people like to listen to music or white noise or the washing machine while they work. Me, I like to have a regional water main replaced outside my home office window. Volume up. Yes, the window is closed. 6753
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026They’ve been doing this for years, yes, but it feels like it’s getting worse, right? 1294
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026Wrong. At least a hundred deportation flights were stopped, and there is no guarantee they’ll start them again. They already did one layoff a few weeks ago, the buyer could just as likely sell the planes for parts and shit the whole thing down for good. 3518
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026This piece of work told the council in June he found the source of his wealth “abhorrent,” but there was nothing he could do, due to contractual obligations. (And said my ironclad reporting was “not accurate,” while providing NO evidence for this claim.) Yet Omni’s ICE flights suddenly stopped! 210412
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult… 231526257
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026I was wandering around @wikipedia.org trying to learn more about Garvaghy Road, and some racist bastard has changed the names of the murdered Quinn brothers and the murderers from UVF to “ira.” Does anyone know how to flag it or get it changed back? 2499
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026Shared with me by @jjindc.bsky.social, in the Denver Post. Dana Miller, you rock. Flight attendants know what’s up. 220966
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026Good morning, Mr, @girmayzahilay.bsky.social. Doesn’t it violate King County’s rules to have ICE obscure its loading of migrants from the Boeing Field livestream like this? And can you please find out if the migrants have been on buses on the tarmac all night after yesterday’s plane (N468AW) broke? 5338141
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026This is one of DHS’s stock phrases that they copy-paste into anything they can, regardless of whether it’s true or not, as it obviously isn’t in Seck’s case. Glad to hear she’s been moved to a hospital, but as @nkalamb.bsky.social points out, that only happened after her case made national news. 314463
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026Jeez. The court may have stopped some third-country removals at the last second yesterday, but ICE recalibrated quickly. Sept. 24 saw the most ICE flights+removals in the months I've been keeping a daily log. --at least 90 flights --at least 18 removals, including Haiti --plus a stop at Gitmo 2210152
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026Overnight this ICE flight landed in Kenya, which is not an official TCR “host,” but does transfer removals, i.e. migrants will be put onto a commercial flight to their country of origin. This is the plane that stopped in Gitmo, so this is probably the transfer deport of the Somalis who were there. 49945
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026God, “pool spray,” truly one of the dumbest things in journalism. 2807
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026Here’s the current location of the plane that stopped at Gitmo this morning. I don’t where it is going to land, but, respectfully, I don’t understand how ICE Flight Monitor can see this plane and make this statement. Since they don’t cite their sources, the quality of the info is hard to evaluate. 1377
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026NYT’s writeup definitely drives the story forward. But it seems to be framed around a lot of documents coming from the lying liars who lie without confirming their accuracy independently? No mention of Ghana, Liberia, or Gitmo landings. And Todd Blanche says they’re going to SCOTUS ASAP. 🙄 27013
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026The Gitmo plane has now landed Dakar, Senegal, a common refueling and crew change spot for ICE flights. 45711
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026Plus, an ICE charter plane that was in the air when the appeals court said its bar on third-country removals was effective immediately, has since landed in two known TCR countries—Ghana and Liberia. Story to come at @prospect.org 336398
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026BREAKING: The plane appearing to have been scheduled to fly third-country nationals to 3 African countries today—before an appeals court prohibited it last night—has taken off, landed at Gitmo (Somalis in ICE camp there) and is now in San Juan, a common refueling stop for ICE flights to Africa. 4486178
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026Now we need to know if this ICE flight headed for Ghana has third-country nationals onboard. If so, it needs to bring them back. The emergency ruling is binding immediately, which includes planes in the air. Any lawyers or anyone else with standing think they might know someone onboard? File! 3493147
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026Lmao sure looks like they tried to do it using the MAGA billionaire's plane. This is the only one among the jets ICE uses for Africa trips that was in position for the planned TCR. Typically they get to the staging airport 20 hours before departure for crew rest. zeteo.com/p/this-famil... 125837
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026Completely agree. I always call them removals, expulsions, or refoulement. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all... 0163
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k... 61015657
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026That isn't what the lawyers who won the case say. Fine if you disagree, just FYI. www.humanrightsfirst.org/press?item=f... 192
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026Overnight this ICE flight landed in Myanmar, as expected. Migrant passengers onboard were shackled for at least 24 hours. 37841
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026This ICE removal flight to Myanmar has now landed in Guam. Migrant passengers onboard (4 to 7 that I’m aware of) have been shackled for at least 15 hours. 18221
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026One more thing: I am guessing the Guardian had to add this to protect themselves legally, but I would push back on this characterization, and I think the women in this story, some of whom I know, would too. 1361
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026If you have ever spent any time with women who were in Midtown, this is…not believable. 2879
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026This is the plane heading to Myanmar, based on documents I've received. It is the fourth private jet ICE removal to Myanmar this year. 19427
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar 4477233
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026Once they are in the system, it will be nearly impossible to track them by flight data. There are dozens of flights everyday between the big detention center hubs in LA, TX, FL, and AZ. For example, this is just one day: 022857
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026More important than ever to use Habeas Flight Watch from @jjindc.bsky.social and @lexingtonalarm.bsky.social to get Habeas petitions as soon as someone is captured so they can’t be moved into the gulag archipelago. Especially for people in MN, NYC and Chicago! 329998
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026Newsletter is out. If you subscribe, then you already know where I've learned this ICE charter jet is expected to go tomorrow. 29019
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026when you know beyond a shadow of a doubt you're one of the bad guys 734153
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all... 51152422
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/09/2026Hours before the decision came down, this ICE flight landed in Ghana. A possible third-country removal, but also possibly the last one? 15911
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026This photo is fake, stop defaming immigrants with this 2508
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026If you live in Arizona, please contact @captmarkkelly.bsky.social and @gallego.senate.gov and ask them what they are doing to help Ahmed, who lived in Arizona for 26 of his 30 years on earth. 17425
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026Huh. What changed? I wonder if ICE kidnapping tens of thousands of Cubans and expelling them to the far corners of the earth has had an impact on her poll numbers in a Cuban diaspora majority district?? 14383112
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026I also got a lot out of talking with concentration camp history expert @andreapitzer.bsky.social, who was not at all surprised by the detainees’ claims about the size of “the box” or uncanny “middle ground” nature of the report. 19022
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026Beside the fact that the cages the inspectors saw were better than what previous detainees had described, the OIG admitted deep in the report they could not “confirm or refute” ICE’s claims about the cages. AND THAT IS A HUGE RED FLAG! 114927