WASHINGTON – In its former life, the charter plane with the tail No. N917XA went by the moniker Trump Force Two.

The ubiquitous red, white and blue livery logged thousands of miles last year as the campaign plane of JD Vance, who was elected as President Trump's vice president in November.

But that plane — the same one the campaign offered rides on to entice donors to give money — is now carrying out a much different and clandestine kind of task for the Trump administration.

The Boeing 737 has been chartered more than a dozen times this year by the federal government to deport migrants to several Central American countries, according to public aviation logs and a group that tracks the flights.

The Trump-Vance campaign rode to victory in part on its vow to undertake the largest deportat

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