“The Retired J.P. Morgan Executive Tracking Trump’s Deportation Flights”

Nick Miroff for The Atlantic offers a fascinating story relating to the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to retired J.P. Morgan executive Tom Cartwright: 

“[A]s immigrant-rights groups, congressional aides, and reporters have struggled to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s deportation push, they have relied more and more on Cartwright, a 71-year-old immigrant-rights activist who, in retirement, has become an eagle-eyed tracker of U.S. deportation flights, which the government rarely publicizes.

Every day, he compiles data on ICE flights, applying skills developed over a career managing banks with hundreds of billions of dollars in assets. Using publicly available information from aviation-tracking sites, he produces weekly and monthly reports detailing where ICE Air—the government’s deportation airline—is directing its planes.”

This is an interesting story of a retired bank executive, a practicing Catholic inspired by volunteers assisting immigrants, used his data management and technical skills to track deportation flights.

KJ