TELL AVELO AIRLINES: Avelo’s contract with the Trump administration to operate deportation flights is helping cause untold terror and harm to immigrants, families, and communities across the country. Sign the petition: Stop running deportation flights for Trump!

Avelo Airlines signed a contract with the Trump administration to run deportation flights for ICE,1 making the airline a partner in the White House’s horrific mass deportations system.

Avelo CEO Andrew Levy’s decision to aid mass deportations sparked public outrage, with customers, community members, and local elected officials protesting the decision.2 Democratic Senators Alex Padilla and Richard Blumenthal recently raised alarms about Avelo’s lack of transparency about these flights. They also warned that Avelo could be aiding Trump’s illegal deportations.3

Companies must decide between complicity with the Trump administration’s horrendous policies, and taking a stand for justice. Avelo must end its complicity and stop running deportation flights.

Sign the petition: Urge Avelo Airlines to stop its deportation flights for Trump and ICE.

Sens. Padilla and Blumenthal wrote to Avelo saying, “Given the Trump Administration’s mission to indiscriminately deport our nation’s immigrants — without due process, in violation of the Constitution and federal immigration law, and, in some cases, in defiance of court orders — it is deeply disturbing that Avelo has determined that its partnership with ICE is ‘too valuable not to pursue.’”4

A coalition to stop Avelo says this deportation contract is worth $150 million.5 That’s $150 million to support Trump and ICE’s terror campaign against immigrants and communities across the country.

We must build the pressure on Avelo to end its support for Trump’s mass deportations dragnet.

Sign the petition to Avelo Airlines CEO Andrew Levy: Stop running flights for mass deportations!

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the Demand Progress team

Sources:

  1. The New York Times, "Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash for Aiding Trump’s Deportation Campaign,” May 12, 2025.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Sen. Padilla Press Release, “Padilla, Blumenthal Demand Transparency From Avelo Airlines About Deportation Flights,” May 16, 2025.
  4. Ibid.
  5. CBS 6 News Albany, “Avelo Airlines faces backlash over ICE deportation flights,” May 28, 2025.

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