Tell Congress: Audit Trump Donor’s Deportation Scheme

The Trump administration is running a secretive deportation operation that funnels taxpayer money to the president's business partner while denying due process to Palestinian families—and Congress must investigate immediately.

ICE is chartering a luxury Gulfstream jet owned by Gil Dezer—Trump's longtime business partner, $1.3 million donor, and member of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces—to secretly deport Palestinian men to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At an estimated $500,000 per round trip, these flights are enriching Trump's associate while separating families and abandoning people in dangerous conditions.

Maher Awad, 24, lived in the US for nearly a decade and was separated from his four-month-old son he's never met. Sameer Zeidan, 47, was separated from his wife and five children in Louisiana. The men were shackled for transatlantic flights and dropped at checkpoints in prison tracksuits with their belongings in plastic bags.

Why is ICE secretly using a Trump donor's private jet instead of standard deportation flights? How much taxpayer money is being funneled to Trump's business partners? What legal authority does Israel have to accept deportees in occupied territory? Why were families never notified? Did Ireland and Bulgaria authorize shackled detainees transiting through their airports?

This secretive operation reeks of corruption and conflicts of interest. Congress must investigate how ICE contracts are awarded, whether Trump associates are profiting from deportations, and whether due process is being systematically denied. We demand transparency, accountability, and an end to this corrupt scheme.