Rachel Maddow

He's an aviation geek.

He studies planes.

He looks at flight data.

You know, at some airports, there are little places set aside for people to view the takeoffs and landings.

Those are for people like Nick Benson.

In the Minneapolis area where he lives, whenever he gets the chance, he goes to the Minneapolis airport and he takes photographs of interesting planes coming and going.

This is his passion.

And like most people who live in and near Minneapolis, Nick Benson has also been horrified by what Trump's federal agents, Trump's ICE agents and Border Patrol agents, have done in Minneapolis and their attack on that city.

And as part of Nick Benson's contributions to his community's fight against ICE, their fight back against this attack by the federal government, Mr. Benson has been documenting ICE flights out of Minneapolis's airport.

He's been doing it ever since ICE surged into Minnesota in December.

Along with other local plane spotters, Nick has watched and kept count.

He's kept a record.

He's documented it as people...

made their way from the tarmac up the steps into one of these deportation planes over and over and over again.

He says many of the people he's seen put on these planes are put on in shackles, both men and women.

The long hours that he's put in waiting at the airport, going through flight data, mean that Nick Benson has been in almost a unique position, not just to document those disappearances,

Those flights.

But specifically to follow up on a story that absolutely tore people up all across this country.

The story of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos.

You'll remember the story of Liam Ramos, right?