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'It’s inhumane' – Officials, human rights advocates, readers react to ICE flights from RIC

,   and  Dina Weinstein, Community Vitality Reporter
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"I think it’s wrong and inhumane. That’s my feeling about it, but as a commissioner, I do think that something of this magnitude, we really should know what’s going on,” Henrico County supervisor Rev. Tyrone Nelson (right) told the Capital Region Airport Commission Tuesday about the ICE deportation flights at RIC. (Dina Weinstein/Henrico Citizen)
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