ICE using Indy airport up to 3 times per week, IAA confirms

INDIANAPOLIS — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using Indianapolis International Airport for some of its operations.

The Indianapolis Airport Authority has confirmed that ICE uses the airport up to three times a week. The agency has a facility located within the airport’s International Arrivals Building, which is not connected to any areas that are accessible by commercial airline passengers. The IAA indicated that the International Arrivals Building is located across the property’s airfield and away from the main airport campus.

The IAA also reported that Indianapolis International Airport is federally regulated as a public-use airport. That means the IAA must comply with regulations put forth by the Federal Aviation Administration and thus cannot interfere with or restrict federal and civil aviation activities.

The IAA indicated that such regulations apply to all of the 500-plus commercial service airports in the U.S.

Per the IAA, the U.S. government is not required to inform airport officials about certain operations they are conducting and flights they are commissioning at Indianapolis International Airport. The federal government is not required to notify the IAA about the frequency and duration of certain operations it conducts at the airport.

The exact scope of the work ICE is conducting via flights into and out of Indianapolis International Airport is currently unknown. FOX59/CBS4 has reached out to ICE for additional information on the work it is doing at Indianapolis International Airport. ICE has yet to respond to those inquiries.