As taxpayer cost soars towards a billion-dollar bill, advocates say ICE Air treats detainees like ‘Amazon Packages’

An undocumented man living in Maryland described a grueling 12-hour ordeal after his arrest was ultimately deemed unlawful by a federal judge.

WASHINGTON — For months, the WUSA9 Investigative Unit watched from the tarmac at Baltimore-Washington International Airport as shackled men and women were loaded one by one onto planes — not commercial flights, but government chartered aircraft operating under a program known as ICE Air.

What our cameras captured is part of a rapidly expanding deportation network that has grown at a pace — and cost — that is without precedent in American history. And for

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