STOP DEPORTATIONS OF IRAQI REFUGEES
Delta Airlines: No More Cooperation With Death Deportations!
NO MORE DELTA DEATH FLIGHTS! Trump and ICE have renewed efforts to deport Iraqi refugees to their death in Iraq where they face genocide. In June, several Iraqi refugees who have been fighting their deportations for two years were told by ICE to report to Detroit Metro airport to be deported on commercial flights on Delta Airlines. Delta must not be complicit in these death deportations.
In April, Oliver Awshana heroically fought and stopped his own deportation when ICE agents attempted to force him onto a plane to Iraq. He protested, fought and screamed that he was being deported to his death, as a group of I.C.E. officers and police brutalized and threatened him with tasers. When the pilot saw this, he refused to fly with him on the plane. ICE was forced to bring Oliver back and within a week his case was reopened. His immigration case was heard in Immigration Court November 4 and will continue December 2 at 8:30am. His heroic fight that saved his life has inspired many others to follow. Increasingly, there have been people prepared to take action to stop deportations in their tracks, pilots refusing to fly, flight attendants refusing to work, passengers on planes refusing to sit down and put on their seatbelts. Stories of these acts of courage have spread like wildfire as a beacon of hope amidst the constant barrage of horrors of the Trump presidency. These acts of heroism must be broadened, and adopted as the method of our whole movement.
In response to Trump’s policy of separating thousands of children from their families at the border, American, Frontier, Southwest and United airlines announced their refusal to fly immigrant children separated from their parents for the federal government. Across Europe, airlines are refusing participate in forced deportations in response to protests. Delta must join them or face boycotts.
TAKE ACTION TO STOP DEPORTATIONS on Commercial Flights:
- TAKE A STAND, SAVE A LIFE: If someone on your flight is being deported, passengers can refuse to sit down or put on their seatbelts, and the plane cannot take off.
- The pilot has discretion to refuse to fly the plane with someone being deported.
- Flight crew, mechanics can refuse to work and make it impossible for the flight to take off.
- Call/Fax/Email Delta Airlines to Demand they stop cooperating in Deportations:
CALL: 404-715-2554
FAX: (404) 715-5042
EMAIL: DeltaAirLines@e.delta.com
EXECUTIVE EMAILS:
Victoria.ForbesRoberts@delta.com
heidi.Gould@delta.com,
ed.bastian@delta.com
