Hacktivist group Anonymous breached Global Crossing Airlines (GlobalX), the charter carrier heavily used by the Trump administration for deportation flights. The cyberattack involved defacing their website and taking sensitive passenger information that could expose critical details regarding deportations.
An "ICE Air" (@ICEGov) plane, GlobalX N530FL, departs from Boeing Field in Seattle with a few dozen detainees. @KOMONews @EROSeattle – pic.twitter.com/3WYcVEZzre
— Jonathan Simmons (@JSimmonsTVNews) March 18, 2025
Anonymous specifically targeted GlobalX to protest flights deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador despite a federal court order issued on May 1, 2025. Trump-appointed district court Judge Fernandez Rodriguez ruled that the administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was unlawful, stating that the President has no authority to unilaterally declare a foreign invasion or threat in order to invoke deportations under Alien Enemies Act.
Anonymous posted the following on the GlobalX website,
Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge’s order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans. You lose again Donnie.
The hackers claimed to have taken copies of passenger manifests and flight records dating from January 19 to May 1, 2025. These records reportedly include passenger identities, flight numbers, departure and arrival times, and destinations. This includes flights 6143, 6145, and 6122 on March 15, 2025, transporting Venezuelan migrants from Harlingen, Texas, to El Salvador.
GlobalX, founded in 2018 by Ed Wegel, originally positioned itself as a luxury charter airline serving sports teams, casinos, and VIP clients. However, its business significantly shifted toward federal government contracts. Currently the airline manages a fleet of 22 aircraft.
GlobalX Airbus A320 Credit: Coldstreamer20 via Wikimedia Commons
Prior investigative reporting by ProPublica shared details of GlobalX deportation flight safety and ethical treatment of detainee issues, with flight attendants working the charters reporting insufficient emergency training for dealing with emergencies in the unique situation of detainees restrained by shackles (who could not possibly meet evacuation standards). One recounted an incident where she administered emergency medical aid to a severely ill child passenger during a deportation flight.
Good work–hope they give the Dictator more problems.
Perhaps @Trk can host some of the freedom fighting lads from Tren de Aragua at their house. Sure, there could be the occasional homicide or sexual assault nearby. And the fentanyl will flow like water in their neighborhood. But hey, you stuck it to that bad orange man and that’s what matters.
@Trk seems like a person who is far isolated from the issues that illegal aliens pose. He is able to hold these idiotic views because of this – he’s the sort of person who is a yimby for other people and a nimby when in actually comes to his own place of residence.
The Tesla firebombers have moved on and now support illegal alien gangbagers.
Yes – read the ProPublica story and notice the dates and timelines. The story mostly covers the policy issues occurring during the prior administration. Surprised? Nope. Once again, the malfeasance and slippery behaviors of earlier administration were not reported then but mysteriously become content for today’s narrative. Shameful journalism by ProPublica.
@angryflyer and @coffee please, the crook as president bypassing our laws ( like he has done and was convicted ) is completely in his element with this group he deports illegally. So bite me with your rightwing support. The Repubs use to try to brand themselves as “the law and order” and the “good for economic growth”. Since they have been exposed as frauds in those brands, the chose to become the Masked Fascist Party.
@Ray – this is law and order. We can’t let a few activist liberal judges stop the goal of closing our borders, deporting those here illegally (or that break our laws while here on a Visa) and severely punishing violent illegal aliens
Have to focus on the greater good than any perceived rights of the low life illegals
@Ray
And
@Trk
Should be sent to El Salvador
It’s embarrassing how people today think online cosplaying equates to actual, tangible victory. It’s why members of Congress are now more concerned about getting a viral soundbite (just ask Corey “Spartacus” Booker) than actually doing anything of substance.
“You lose again Donnie”
How did he lose? Were the illegal immigrants on those flights no longer going to where Trump flew them off to? Are future illegal immigrants Trump is flying out no longer going to to be? Is GlobalX no longer going to be contracted for these flights?
Nothing of any substance has or will change due to this hack. But that was never the point. For the hackers to accomplish anything productive in the political realm, it would likely require leaving their parents basement and taking the occasional shower. So not gonna happen.
These morons will think they’re heroes until they’re convicted and sent to prison. I would say ruin their lives but I doubt they have much of a life to ruin. Anyone that has a problem sending illegal gang members out of this country should be the first to volunteer for said gang members to live in their community.
Because sending people who invaded the USA illegally would be wrong.
BTW, hattip to the View from the Wing writers, these political trigger posts do wonders for your traffic, I’m sure 🙂
The Fifth Amendment has entered the chat.
“No person shall… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…”
Even late Justice Scalia in Reno vs Flores said DUE PROCESS for all.
“We turn now from the claim that the INS cannot deprive respondents of their asserted liberty interest at all, to the “procedural due process” claim that the Service cannot do so on the basis of the procedures it provides. It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings.”
The Constitution is not an al a carte menu. Just because you don’t like a specific Amendment doesn’t give you the right to ignore it. See the 2nd Amendment.
@AngryFlier and @CoffeePlease and those others who believe that it’s OK to bypass due process because “They are bad people”.
How do you know?
Due process simply means, “You claim something is true. Prove it.”.
How do you know these deportees are indeed TdA members, gang bangers or fentanyl sellers? Perhaps some misguided law enforcement person trying to make his/her daily quota (think speeding tickets but far worse) is shading the facts or omitting some facts that may make a reasonable person think that the story isn’t true. (Think photoshopping MS13 on a photo of Garcia’s hand.) In some cases, ICE relied on “confidential informants” whose motive to lie (save their own skin) is apparent.
The Administration’s record for truthfulness on this issue is poor. 1000 years of common law jurisprudence tells us that our sovereigns often do not tell the truth.
In short, our Constitution – the document that sets us apart from every other country – says, “Prove it!”
And don’t assume anything. “ASS|U|ME” makes an ASS out of both U and ME.
@AC it’s unfortunate that you are so uninformed about the benefits of immigration and how “closing our borders” would result in uncontrolled inflation and economic calamity.. Already in Florida we are seeing (not hearing…SEEING) crops rotting on the vines because there is no one to harvest them. In our zeal to root out every single immigrant with a police record…right down to an unpaid parking ticket…we are terrorizing, harassing and in some cases wrongfully deporting people who just want to make an honest living.
Produce costs are rising. Labor costs for unskilled laborers have skyrocketed. The time it takes to complete a construction project lengthening rapidly. What, because we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. No one is saying we shouldn’t deport violent visitors to our country. We are just saying there’s no need to be so sloppy about things. This ready-fire-aim approach is the behavior of leaders and certainly not an American value.
What’s so disturbing about this whole situation is how Trump and the GOP stacked the courts during 45. The very judges HE stacked the court with are routinely coming out now and saying his actions are unconstitutional. Now, those judges that were “amazing, brilliant, best judges in the world” are now considered partisan hacks, engaged in judicial overreach and to be ignored, if one is to listen to the most extreme voices in the GOP…you know, the people that confirmed them. This doesn’t sound like American ideals to me. It sounds like a power-hungry autocracy hellbent on getting its way, Constitution and American values be damned.
The world is such a better place when faceless criminal internet cabals are doling out justice, in the name of fighting fascism, or something. Is that the current leftist narrative? It’s about as logical a violently shutting down speakers you disagree with in the name of democracy. At some point will the left take a long hard look in the mirror, and realize you have become what you claim to despise? I doubt it, that would require an ounce of self awareness.
If Anonymous claims to be legion then lets get an exorcist and, as Jesus did, cast out this demonic bunch into a herd of swine. I think the Seattle police have already arrested a suitable herd lighting fires on the University of Washington campus.
Politics aside, I’m always amazed that so many companies are too cheap or lazy to protect their systems from hackers. Groups like Anonymous wouldn’t exist if organizations actually cared about data protection.
As an old-school retired Anon, I’m proud of the new crew for this action and am rooting for them to continue this operation as long as necessary. And considering the subhumans that congregate here, I may have to go back to active duty. I don’t forget the handles of the conservatards here, and I don’t forgive their support of Mango Mussolini. Expect me.
Anonymous has been around a long time. They are not leftists.
Anyway… you are having people picked up on the street and hauled out of the country with no due process. Even people who are legal US citizens (purportedly due to paperwork errors) have been picked up and put in detention. Honestly, what would be the big crisis with giving them a minute or two in front of a judge, the true criminals are deported right away, ones who ended up there due to paperwork mistakes or whatever are released, and those in between can have a somewhat longer examination so they’re deported if they did anything and they aren’t deported if they didn’t.
I’m not saying criminals shouldn’t be deported — but the amount of cutting corners and doing this all slipshod is depriving people of their rights. And even if you really think foreigners should have no human or civil rights, US Citizens are getting caught up in this too.
It is indeed fascist and totalitarian to just sidestep procedures and laws to do whatever, ignore the rule of law (ignoring ruling of judges), eliminate due process, decry the public and press questioning just what is going on here, among other things.
Late the party, again. Special thanks to @Trk, @Ray, @Rob Wagner, @Retired Lawyer, and @hwertz, for fighting the good fight above, supporting the rule of law, reminding our fellow countrymen of the importance of our Constitution, including the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee fair legal procedures for all people, not just citizens, and protect us from arbitrary actions by the government.
It includes but is not limited to:
The right to a fair trial
The right to know the charges against you
The right to present evidence and call witnesses
The right to legal counsel
The right to an impartial judge or jury
Protection against unlawful search and seizure
To the right wingers and extremists here, recall that if it were the other team doing this, your hair would figuratively be on fire right now. Watch for that pendulum to swing back, and be grateful for those of us in the center and on the left for our relative restraint. This stuff is vile. It’s wrong. We know better. It didn’t have to be this way. Stand up. Speak out. Protect the vulnerable. These are not inherently bad people. These are not all terrorists or criminals. It can happen here.
#AC
I remember when the greater good meant excluding Blacks from every facet of American life, denying due process, equal protection of the law, and basic humanatarian entitlements. And again, under Trump, the greater good has been conjured up again against Blacks, as well as immigrants of all stripes, to facilitate what they couldn’t do in past years.
Everyone should be accorded their civil rights, which incidentally does not just pertain to blacks.
You are repugnant. Hopefully, you are not in a position where your rights are ever abridged. Oh, that’s right, you are White and they will never come for you.
@AC, “law and order” like a 34-time felon in the White House who pardoned the garbage that tried to overthrow the government on Jan. 6. I don’t believe you care at all about law and order, just about seizing the country for your dictatorship.
I say good for Anonymous. ICE isn’t a legitimate organization until it starts obeying the law and the Constitution, unlikely under the current regime.
I don’t mine these hyper-partisan, super-controversial stories at VFTW, specifically, because Gary is a great host, supports passionate debate, and respects free expression of opposing views.
If you frequent the site, you get used to the typical right-wing and libertarian gobbledygook from folks like @Mike P, @Mantis, @George N. Romey, etc., (speaking of, where’s @Andy S and @Michael Mainello, these days?), but this is on a whole other level up in here. Radical. Yikes.
Besides, the comments are often insightful to identify who is one what side of this apparent rise of fascism and right-wing extremism in our country. That way, when the rest of us, who do still very much outnumber these fascists, can recognize, like, oh yeah, I remember what @AC, @Coffee Please, and @AngryFlier, said on that post about the deportations.
Like, fellas, some of you literally advocated for the renditioning of your fellow commenters to a gulag in El Salvador. Not cool. You can claim that was in-jest, but since it’s really happening to innocent people, we should not be tolerating such intolerance here or anywhere.
*mind (though, I can take it if you want to accuse me of ‘mining’ these comments, bah!)
@1990 – some people deserve to be thrown out of the country or into prison. Frankly, I want the US to limit the right to protest. I’m tired of BLM and other organizations blocking traffic, vandalizing buildings and generally making life difficult for those of us that are productive citizens. Trump will eventually declare martial law and send in the military if these libs resist too much. IMHO good as the country has gone down the wrong path the last 10-20 years and we need to make radical changes.
I love the airline’s slogan: You can’t beat the experience although given these illegal flights the slogan should be altered to: “You can’t beat the experience but the experience might beat you”.
@ Parker
Costs otherwise known as wages for unskilled workers have skyrocketed? Do they earn a living wage yet?
To all above who so vehemently oppose these deportations, please step forward and open your homes to these so called Poor Immigrants and show them some love. Let them feast at your table and bask in your warmth for as long as they let you live. Do you forget those who have been robbed, raped, murdered, those Citizens of this Country who unknowingly opened their door and soon found themselves in the local morgue? Where was their Due Process?
You feel so superior to those who disagree with your words. Well you can cure that by letting them into your lives and homes to prove they are upstanding members of your Community. Meanwhile I prefer that Migrants obey the first rule of immigration and that is to apply properly, not just walk in and say you must give me money, housing, medical and education for free.
Good Luck
Read somewhere that if the US deported MAGA-supporting males between the ages of 17-50 years and replaced them with immigrants then the violent crime rate in the US would drop 70-80% and crimes against women and children in the US would drop by even more than that.
@AC — All people “deserve” dignity. Yes, even convicted criminals, no matter their crime. As a society, it is our obligation to respect their inherent dignity and value as human beings, too. Yes, also, through our criminal justice systems, we deprive them of their freedoms, often for a long time. Some theories seek to use this as deterrence, as this administration is clearly attempting. However, instead of indefinite cruel and unusual punishment, we should focus on rehabilitation, which still involves accountability, but actually leads to more productive, beneficial outcomes for all. Policy can help, too. In the 1980s, President Reagan signed an amnesty bill that offered a path to naturalization for many. It was ultimately a good thing for the society and the economy.
Or, you can ignore all that, continue to parrot lies and keep scapegoating and vilifying an ‘out’ group in order to obtain and keep power. That’s literally the definition of fascism. Often, fascists destroy themselves over time as the ‘in’ group keeps getting smaller and smaller. Also, usually, they don’t give up power, willingly. Again, read your history.
@American — Nice strawman. We have the resources as a country; but, this administration will not do ‘the right thing.’ The President halted that bi-partisan immigration bill, specifically so that this issue could be used to rile up the base. And it worked well for him. But the reality is that it’s still wrong, innocent people are getting hurt, and it’s going to cost him his power in the end, because there are still more decent people that outnumber the hate-mongers among us. Yeah, I still have hope. ‘Good night, and good luck,’ to you, too.
@Jack the Ladd — I know your comment history on here, too. Oh, this ‘unskilled’ phrase, like ‘low IQ,’ and many others, are so telling. It’s not even thinly-veiled these days.
@GUWonder — Welcome to the party. Better late than never! I recognize that your comment was in-jest. In case anyone took it seriously, no one should be in favor of deporting political opponents, either. I get it, He began His campaign with the ‘build the wall,’ and by calling Mexicans criminal rapist drug lords, though, some He assumed, were good people. He continued by vilifying his opponents, ‘Lyin Ted,’ or worse, ‘lock her up.’ Oh, if only irony, hypocrisy, and shame, had any affect anymore. At the very least, He is a demagogue, willing to traffic in hate, but with these recent actions, namely the suspension of due process for these ‘out’ groups, it’s really more fascistic these days. We’re living through an authoritarian takeover of our once democratic republic. Should probably read-up on Julius Caesar (Shakespeare and/or the real one). Or the guy in 1945. Or Napoleon. How’s St. Helena these days? I’ve always wanted to visit the South Atlantic.
Watching Faux Fox Propaganda should be a legal impediment to the right to vote.
Clearly it lowers one’s IQ to shoe size numbers.