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Private Equity Playbook: Deportation Flights and Omni Air International

Detaining and deporting immigrants has become a lucrative business, and private equity is financing the infrastructure behind it.

In this episode, Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Anna Canning follow the money behind Omni Air International, a charter airline operating ICE deportation flights, and Stonepeak, the private equity firm that owns it. In true Art of Citizenry fashion, we trace Omni’s role in long-haul deportation flights linked to gross human rights violations, pulling back the curtain on Stonepeak’s acquisition, how public pension funds financed the deal, and why voluntary ESG…

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