First Thing: Huge climate cost of emissions from US immigration enforcement flights

Good morning. Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign has spurred at least an 80% increase in immigration flights year over year, accelerating the climate crisis by emitting massive amounts of carbon dioxide, according to data analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian. “We’ve seen a staggering increase of all US immigration [enforcement] flights,” including “the number of flights as well as the locations that the flights are going to,” said Savitri Arvey, the director of research and analysis for refugee and immigrant rights at Human Rights First, a US advocacy group. How much carbon is ICE emitting through deportation flights? US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) air operations pumped out an estimated 335,876 tonnes (37,0240 US tons) of carbon emissions in 2025, up 88% from the year before. The first four months of 2026 show the federal agency is on track to contribute even more to global heating this year from such flights, the Guardian can reveal. US strikes Iranian missile sites and mine-laying vessels as Trump’s promised peace deal remains elusive An anti-US billboard in Tehran. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA The US has launched strikes on southern Iran in a test of the seven-week long ceasefire , as both sides played down hopes for an imminent peace deal even as negotiators from Tehran began new talks in Qatar. …