Rachel Maddow

And we know that because many of the families imprisoned at that hellhole facility in Dilley, Texas, have described in legal declarations that that's how they got there.

In one long-running legal case about conditions for kids in these immigration prisons, there were declarations filed just this past Friday.

Families imprisoned at Dili, they don't say what airline they were brought there on, but they describe being brought to the regular commercial airport alongside other passengers, but they're being forced onto flights by mysterious escorts, two or three escorts.

And who knows who those escorts are?

They generally don't identify themselves.

nor will they tell the families where they are going.

They just force them onto the planes.

In one declaration from December, a woman describes being locked up with her nine-year-old daughter for nearly two full days in a room in the Miami airport.

And then three unidentified people escorted the woman and her daughter through two different airports and two different flights.

These were regular commercial flights on regular commercial airlines with other passengers.

And on one of those flights, the woman said she desperately handed a flight attendant a vomit bag on which she had written a plea to call her husband and tell him that she and her daughter had been taken and they were headed to San Antonio.

She hadn't been allowed to make any phone calls for two days.

This was her last desperate attempt.

And the flight attendant mercifully

did it, called the woman's husband.

Even if the airlines don't want to talk about it, the families being shipped to Dili on these flights are talking about it.

And now this new footage of Liam in the Delta Terminal at Minneapolis-St.

Paul Airport makes it just impossible to ignore.

You may remember we have covered a lot on this show, pressure campaigns that have been brought to bear on commercial airlines and airports that were facilitating these ICE flights, these deportation flights for Trump's federal agents.

People were pretty upset to discover, for example, that Avelo Airlines, you know, an Avelo Airlines plane, they might have been taking on vacation.