{"id":75894,"date":"2026-07-09T04:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/france-national-team-uses-ice-deportation-planes-for-world-cup-travel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:55:23","slug":"france-national-team-uses-ice-deportation-planes-for-world-cup-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/france-national-team-uses-ice-deportation-planes-for-world-cup-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"France national team uses ICE deportation planes for World Cup travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plane that French team used after match with Paraguay flew 44 deportation-related flights this year alone<\/p>\n<p>The French men\u2019s national soccer team, whose star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/kylian-mbappe\">Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a> is one of the world\u2019s most outspoken athletes against far-right politicians, has been using a charter airplane company that is at the heart of the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Images of the team posted on social media and flight tracking data show the French team have used Global Crossing Airlines (GlobalX) for at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@equipedefrance\/photo\/7658361173426900256?lang=en\">three<\/a> domestic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@equipedefrance\/photo\/7657376001663487264?lang=en\">flights<\/a> between their World Cup games and base camp in Boston. That same airline charter company has operated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/sep\/10\/trump-globalx-airline-deportation-immigration\">more than half<\/a> of ICE\u2019s removal flights in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/09\/french-national-team-ice-deportation-planes-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plane that French team used after match with Paraguay flew 44 deportation-related flights this year alone The French men\u2019s national soccer team, whose star Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 is one of the world\u2019s most outspoken athletes against far-right politicians, has been using a charter airplane company that is at the heart of the Trump administration\u2019s mass &#8230; <a title=\"France national team uses ICE deportation planes for World Cup travel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/france-national-team-uses-ice-deportation-planes-for-world-cup-travel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about France national team uses ICE deportation planes for World Cup travel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}