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SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Local immigrant advocates are taking aim at another aspect of the ongoing immigration crackdown \u2014 regular flights in and out of Salt Lake City International Airport by charter air companies hauling immigrant detainees.The fights, in the general aviation area of the airport, have been occurring since at least April, advocates say, and they gathered Thursday in the main terminal to picket and call attention to them. A handful of demonstrators holding protest signs were on hand as of late Thursday morning in a designated free speech area adjacent to the baggage claim area at the airport."I think most people aren't aware what is going on out here every Monday and Thursday," said Carolyn Jenkins, one of the demonstrators, referencing the typical days flights hauling immigrants out of Salt Lake City occur.Clare Coonan, who was also demonstrating, thinks the Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights \u2014 occurring all around the country \u2014 are another example of what she sees as overly heavy-handed action against the immigrant population."We want to stop the ICE flights and we want to stop the abuse that ICE is doing in the name of our government," she said.Some immigrant detainees face regular movement within the United States from detention center to detention center, she said, and she charges that the intent is to deliberately separate them from family members, their communities and their legal representation."So out of this airport, twice a week, we are trafficking people, not because we want to keep our nation safe, but because we want to make it harder for those people to have constitutional due process rights," Coonan said. A handful of immigrant advocates gathered at Salt Lake City International Airport on Thursday to protest the regular immigrant detainee flights out of the facility. The photo shows Clare Coonan, one of the demonstrators. (Photo: Laura Seitz, Deseret News) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security noted attacks ICE agents and other DHS partners have faced in declining to provide specifics about detainee flights. Immigrant advocates around the country have tapped into public information about flight activity in determining when and where immigrant detainees and those facing deportation are going, within the country and to destinations abroad."Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong. ICE officers are now facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them. For operational sec
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