Benson watched shackled detainees being loaded onto a flight chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Benson watched shackled detainees being loaded onto a flight chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

The surge of immigration detention flights at Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport spurred plane spotter Nick Benson to shift from tracking rare and unusual aircraft to cataloging the removal of detainees from Minnesota.

Through a telephoto lense fixed to a tripod set up on a frozen, wind-swept corner of an airport carpark, Benson watched shackled detainees being loaded onto a flight chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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