Left-Wing UK Newspaper Claims ICE Deportations Worsen ‘Global Warming’
The Guardian claims ICE's 2025 flight surge caused 335,000 tonnes of CO2 — but that's just 0.05% of U.S. airline emissions.
by Neil Munro May 28, 2026, 11:38 AM
Global warming is getting worse because of the deportations conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), says the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper. [some emphasis, links added]
“We’ve seen a staggering increase in all U.S. immigration [enforcement] flights,” Savitri Arvey, a research director at the pro-migration Human Rights First group, told the newspaper for a May 26 article, which then claimed:
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) air operations pumped into the air an estimated 335,876 tonnes (370,240 US tons) of carbon emissions in 2025, up 88 percent from the year before.”
But a quick comparison to the U.S. domestic airline industry shows that ICE [flights] produce just one-thousandth of the greenhouse gases produced by the domestic airline industry, and one two-thousandths of all aircraft emissions in 2017.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/ice-deportation-flights-co2-emissions-warming/
