Imagine if ICE ordered your plane to land and they arrest all the passengers and flight attendants to bring into their torture facilities.
Imagine if ICE ordered your plane to land and they arrest all the passengers and flight attendants to bring into their torture facilities.
Do you mean flights that fly directly to Mexico from Canada?
Otherwise, you should be fine. ICE doesn’t have jurisdiction over the FAA and can’t just order random planes down. Especially planes from one country to another with no intervening stops in America. What on Earth would the rationale be? “Hey, citizens of other countries who had no intention of entering the US, we’ve kidnapped you and now you’re stuck here!”
There are plenty of valid concerns and fears about America but having them ground international, non US bound flights would be a nonsensical international incident with 0 gain.
No, but if there is an emergency results in a plane landing in the US everyone is deplaned, what happens next? Who knows anymore.
As much as we rightly villify ICE, this just doesn’t make much sense.
Even operationally, you’d have to assume they have guys just sitting around waiting. And then, for some reason someone alerts them to an international flight landing so they bust through the apart to detain people who had never intended to visit?
What I could see happening is sure, you have to use a motel or something while they figure out alternate arrangements, the hospitality industry being legendary for a not entirely legal workforce means there’s a chance you get raided there? But this is stretching the bounds of credulity pretty gosh darned far.