00:00As the number of deportation flights from the United States hits a record high,
00:05immigration rights activists are finding it hard to keep up.
00:09They do what they can to witness the flights and spread the word of where they're headed
00:14and how many people are on board.
00:17They have to do it in person because airlines use dummy call signs
00:21to block the flights from tracking websites.
00:24The activist's work helps people locate loved ones in the absence of information
00:30from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
00:34One activist has logged just under 6,000 flights from the start of Donald Trump's second term
00:40through July, a 41 percent increase over the same period last year.
00:47According to U.S. officials, nearly 200,000 people were deported
00:51in the seven months following Donald Trump's return to office.
00:56Figures from mid-August showed just over 59,000 in ICE detention.
01:01But as deportations increase, so do protests,
01:04with many U.S. cities staging rallies against the immigration sweep.
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