What to Know About Trump's Military Deportation Flights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The acting secretary of defense at the time, Robert Salesses, said in a statement last Wednesday that the Department of Defense would "provide military airlift" to support the Department of Homeland Security in the deportation of more than 5,000 "illegal aliens." Mr. Salesses said these were people being held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the southern border.
48% : But the commercial charters that resemble the planes used in everyday travel, which are operated by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, or I.C.E., have received less attention than the military planes.
35% : The caption read, "President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences.
18% : When President Gustavo Petro of Colombia announced on social media on Sunday that he had turned back U.S. military planes carrying deportees, President Trump came down hard.

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