An aircraft chartered by the Trump administration stopped to refuel at Shannon Airport on St Patrick’s Day while deporting up to 15 Ukrainian nationals.
The aircraft, a private Gulfstream business jet, was hired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the controversial agency leading president Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
It departed Mesa Gateway Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, the location of several Ice detention centres, on Monday morning before landing in Shannon early on Tuesday, according to ICE Flight Tracker, a group that tracks US deportation flights.
Flight tracking data shows the aircraft spent just over an hour on the ground in Ireland before departing for…