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Activists who monitor Burlington’s airport believe that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are no longer moving people detained by federal immigration authorities through the facility.

“It appears that it’s an accurate statement,” said Nic Longo, aviation director of the Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport, of the activists’ observations.

Longo said he has never been notified about ICE’s operations at the airport. But, he said, the airport would likely have had some indication of such movement, typically through activists who he said have been at the airport almost daily.

“I can confirm that the advocates are here a lot, and I think they would see,” Longo said.

Activists noticed a change in August, they said, after they mounted a campaign d

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