U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deports about 40 people a week from the Denver area using a chartered airplane that eventually makes its way to Nogales, Ariz., on the U.S.-Mexico border.

ICE allowed Denver7 Investigates to board the plane as it sat on the tarmac at Denver International Airport.

Deportees are kept in handcuffs through the journey, which often includes stops in other cities.

Some deportees who are headed to interior parts of Mexico are later flown to Mexico City.

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