{"id":407997,"date":"2026-04-18T07:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ice-deported-11-iranians-tehran-mesa-gatetway-hub-immigration-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:26:41","slug":"ice-deported-11-iranians-to-tehran-using-mesa-gateway-as-a-hub-during-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=407997","title":{"rendered":"ICE Deported 11 Iranians To Tehran Using Mesa Gateway As A Hub During Immigration Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/phoenix-mesa-gateway-airport-drops-phoenix-rebranding\/\" >Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport<\/a> (AZA) has increasingly been used by the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257543\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/department-of-homeland-security\/\"  >Department of Homeland Security<\/a><\/span> as a hub for facilitating deportation. This comes at a time when the current President is cracking down hard and aggressively on illegal immigration. In a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/04\/17\/ice-deported-iranians-mesa-tehran-during-crackdown-dissidents\/?fbclid=IwdGRleARPV2VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeq6R4FOn7ewuPTIszlMbI_oERmVATD2US0loqZFUG9XKGJiYTS9fecR_PQUQ_aem_UTE6Xkl7gBe4ah0AsNHvPg#\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Arizona Family<\/a>, the information obtained has seen the number of deportations out of Mesa increase to 5,800 individuals alone in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deportation flights from Mesa Gateway Airport have increased, raising concerns about deporting individuals to countries in the midst of protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,16259,1142,3498,4545,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-deportation","category-ice","category-immigration","category-phoenix","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408000,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407997\/revisions\/408000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}