Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants
Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine.
17 February 2022
theintercept.com
Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine.
17 February 2022
As Amazon's dominance of global e-commerce has grown, so has its vast fleet of vehicles shuttling packages from warehouse to doorstep around the world. To further expand its ballooning logistics empire, the company quietly became a partial owner of Air Transport Services Group Inc., a power player in the air cargo industry that has helped the United States forcibly deport thousands of migrants and, its passengers allege, at times subjected them to horrific abuse en route. On March 9, 2021, following five years of using the service for chartered cargo flights, Amazon purchased 19.5 percent of ATSG for $131 million ...
Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants
Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com