Thousands sign petition urging Avelo airline to halt deportation flights for Ice

Move comes after company signed agreement to support Department of Homeland Security's deportation efforts

Several thousand people have signed a petition urging Avelo Airlines to halt its plans to carry out deportation flights in cooperation with the Trump administration.

This comes as the budget airline company recently said it had signed an agreement to fly federal deportation flights for the administration from Mesa, Arizona, starting in May.