On Friday, November 22, another flight took off from Alexandria, Virginia, carrying hundreds of Brazilians deported from the United States back to Brazil.
According to information from the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), flight GXA-6160, operated by the American company Global Crossing Airlines, was scheduled to make its first landing on Brazilian soil in Manaus, from where it would proceed to Belo Horizonte International Airport in Confins, Minas Gerais, where the deportees would disembark.
This is the 14th flight of Brazilians deported from the U.S. just in 2024. According to data obtained by Ricardo Morgan, who monitors, photographs, and films the movement of planes at Confins Airport, the last operation on November 1 brought 139 Brazilians, totaling 1,593 for the year and 10,872 since the start of deportation flights in 2019.
This is the third occasion this year that two deportation operations have occurred in one month, as happened in August and October. For the remainder of 2024, the cadence was one flight per month.
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, deportation flights aim to repatriate citizens of other countries who have not complied with American immigration laws. The deportees are primarily those who entered the United States illegally, who did not obtain permission to stay, who were convicted of crimes, and/or who were deemed a threat to national security.
Source: Text from Aeroin