Avelo Airlines is already facing calls for boycotts after signing a government deal for ICE deportation flights

In what the CEO acknowledged as a controversial move, the low-cost carrier will aid the Department of Homeland Security in its immigration crackdown.

Low-cost carrier Avelo Airlines has reportedly signed a deal with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) to start flying deportation flights from Arizona this May, a move the company’s CEO has acknowledged is controversial, according to the Associated Press.