A bankrupt aviation company that brought more than 120 asylum-seekers from Texas to Chicago on Tuesday has a history of handling deportation flights for the federal government.
A Boeing 737 owned by iAero Airways flew out of El Paso and landed at O’Hare Airport around 9:34 p.m., according to flight records. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office took responsibility, saying his state was “expanding our operation” of shuttling migrants to Chicago after Mayor Brandon Johnson began “targeting migrant buses from Texas.”
