On Saturday morning, roughly 40 protesters gathered outside the Nashville International Airport cellphone lot calling for a boycott of a budget airline that contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The demonstration was part of a nationwide rebuke of Houston-based Avelo Airlines, which announced in April it would assist in flying deported immigrants out of the country .

The protesters lined up alongside Murfreesboro Pike waving signs, receiving supportive honks from passing vehicles while chanting for Nashville to “de-ICE” its planes.

Avelo doesn't operate any deportation flights out of Nashville; those instead take off from Arizona. Responding to Avelo protesters on social media , BNA says the airport “does not have the authority to restrict or deny air service” due

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