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Graphic and headline: New York Times, 7/31/2025
And so he found himself among thousands of foreign nationals flown to Alexandria, La., after being taken into federal custody as part of the Trump administration’s sprawling immigration crackdown.
No airport has become more crucial to carrying out President Trump’s pledge to deport millions of immigrants.
“You won’t even believe something like that can exist,” Mr. Suri, 41, said in a recent interview, recalling days spent in windowless rooms with hundreds of men, disconnected from the outside world and not knowing where they would be taken next.
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, more than 21,000 people taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have passed through the Alexandria detention facility. More deportation flights have taken off from there than from any other place in the United States, and more domestic ICE flights have passed through there than anywhere else, according to a widely cited database of ICE flights. The database, verified by Times reporters, is maintained by Tom Cartwright, a refugee advocate with the immigrant rights group Witness at the Border. [emphasis added]
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