Protestors rally against Avelo deportation flights at Tweed Airport
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Protestors are gathered outside Tweed Airport in New Haven Thursday afternoon to rally against Avelo Airlines deportation flights.
Connecticut leaders react as Avelo announces they will be flying deportation flights out of Arizona
The organization running the rally is New Haven Immigrants. They say that they are not happy with Avelo's decision to help the Trump Administration deport migrants.
Avelo is a Texas-based company that has agreed to use three of their Boeing 737 planes to assist the Department of Homeland Security with deportation efforts.
'I'm disgusted,' one protestor said at the rally. 'Our taxpaying dollars should not go to support deportation of anyone. We're all entitled, and anyone who steps foot on this country is entitled to due process.'
Some other people at the airport disagreed.
'If people are here illegally and they're not supposed to be here and they came here illegally, then they should be brought back to where they came from,' another man said.
Avelo Airlines Founder and CEO Andrew Levy released a statement saying:
'We realize this is a sensitive and complicated topic. Charter flying will provide us with stability to continue expanding our core scheduled passenger service and keep more than 11,100 crew members employed for years to come.'
Avelo is expected to start running these flights May 12.
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