PREVIOUSLY: Avelo Airlines to Launch ICE-Led Deportation Flights Out of Arizona (But Not California, the Company Says)

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Local activists will gather at the Arcata Plaza on Saturday for the Nationwide Anti-Avelo Day of Action, joining protestors in more than two dozen cities in opposing the airline’s involvement in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation flights. 

The nationwide protest, coordinated by the Coalition to Stop Avelo, comes just two weeks after the budget airline began deporting migrants out of its new hub at the Mesa Gateway Airport (AZA) in Arizona. The Anti-Avelo Day of Action is the latest in a series of protests calling the flights “illegal, inhumane and unconstitutional.”

“The company’s multimillion-dollar contract to operate deportation flights for ICE is both deeply troubling and a clear violation of the ‘good faith’ clause in Avelo’s contracts to operate in cities across the country,” the Coalition to Stop Avelo states on its website. “Avelo’s leadership, especially its CEO and Chairman, Andrew Levy, must take immediate steps to realign corporate policy with the rule of law and ethical business practices.”

An online petition to boycott the airline has garnered nearly 39,000 signatures.

The local protest, led by Humboldt Democracy Connections, will begin at Crabs’ Stadium at F and Ninth Streets in Arcata at 11:30 a.m. and proceed to the Arcata Plaza. More information can be found here.