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The Cost of Deporting Central American Immigrants by Plane
KGBT 4 ^ | Feb 20, 2008 | Ray Pedraza

Posted on 02/21/2008 10:41:05 AM PST by TejanoJim

How expensive is illegal immigration for the U.S.?

The answer may depend on who you ask.

Some argue that, overall, illegal immigrants help our economy while others insist their presence creates a fiscal deficit in the billions.

Recently, Action 4 News gained exclusive access and insight on the costs of detaining and deporting illegal immigrants.

It is just after 4 a.m.

But already the nation's largest detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (or ICE) in Raymondville, Texas is bustling with activity.

The crew has been preparing for hours to deport a group of 132 Hondurans to their country.

Before leaving, the detainees are allowed to change back into the clothes they came here with.

Then they are sent from their dorms to a holding cell.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bice; deport; deportation; elsalvador; honduras; ice; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration
"One man even told us he received surgery while he was here". All at the American taxpayers expense.
1 posted on 02/21/2008 10:41:07 AM PST by TejanoJim
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To: TejanoJim

Forget the plane. Ship them back on a leaky boat.


2 posted on 02/21/2008 10:42:09 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: o_zarkman44
Forget the plane. Ship them back on a leaky boat.

Planes are OK. I like this method except withoug the parachutes.

3 posted on 02/21/2008 10:48:15 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

I don’t know why we can’t buy a small strip in southern MX and get a two-fer. The flyboys can practice touch & goes
and drop the palletized crimaliens out the back.


4 posted on 02/21/2008 10:55:22 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: TejanoJim

Step 1 - Feed them greasy food.

Step 2 - Load them into a C-130/141/17 cargo plane with no seating; only seat belts attached to the floor. No seat padding.

Step 3 - Make sure the aircraft is at least 30 degrees too hot or too cold.

Step 4 - Tell the Air Force they are to fly nap-of-the-earth over every hilltop, mountaintop, ridgetop, bumptop, valley, depression, and gully between here and their home country. Nap-of-the-earth is where the aircraft flies as low as it can to avoid radar (and to let the pilots do neat s***). It is guaranteed to turn the aircraft into the proverbial “vomit comet.”

Step 5 - Tell the Air Force to take the most scenic route (meaning the long way home) they can find.

If the liberals whine then point out to them that that’s exactly what our airborne troops go through on a drop mission (except the sitting on the floor part). If it’s good enough for our boys how can it be too bad for illegals.

Yeee-hah....


5 posted on 02/21/2008 11:03:45 AM PST by BFM (CLINTON is and always will be a rapist. Never forget!)
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To: TejanoJim

Remember the Berlin Airlift?...Can’t we scrounge around the world and dig up 50 or so C-47’s to ferry them all back to South Whatever?


6 posted on 02/21/2008 11:04:58 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: TejanoJim

Whatever the cost, it’s cheaper than letting them stay.


7 posted on 02/21/2008 11:05:08 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Paleo Conservative

If the plane doesn’t land and there’s no parachutes provided then it won’t cost that much and will severely curtail repeat offenders.


8 posted on 02/21/2008 11:06:03 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (And close the damned borders!)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

drop the palletized crimaliens out the back

Of course we will plastic wrap them together....


9 posted on 02/21/2008 11:07:15 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: TejanoJim

Pass laws like Arizona and Oklahoma have, and they’ll “self-deport” at zero cost to the taxpayer!

Shoot, I’d love to see a border fence so effective they’d have to hire a “coyote” to smuggle them OUT of the country!


10 posted on 02/21/2008 11:07:31 AM PST by Redbob (WWJBD: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: TejanoJim

We’ve had a number of illegals hit by cars and killed here in the DC area. I have inside info that a number of them were shipped home ($10,000 each) at the expense of county tax payers.


11 posted on 02/21/2008 11:08:33 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA
Deduct all cost incurred by illegals from the host countries foreign aid.
12 posted on 02/21/2008 11:17:56 AM PST by M1D
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To: TejanoJim

Pretend that we can’t speak spanish and just drop them over the Mexican border.


13 posted on 02/21/2008 11:19:37 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Search for Folding Project - Join FR Team 36120)
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To: TejanoJim
We need to start implementing banishment under pain of death for criminal aliens.

If they return, give them a hearing through which they can try and prove they were forced to return. If they can't provide a solid affirmative defense, execute them.

14 posted on 02/21/2008 12:13:42 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: TejanoJim

Cattle cars would not be the PR move.


15 posted on 02/21/2008 12:16:20 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: TejanoJim

for every nation from which we have significant illegal immigration

we should demand indemnification of $2mil per person which will be claimed, by our government, for everyone of their nationals we deport for being here illegally

or all travel and legal immigration from that nation to the us will be halted


16 posted on 02/21/2008 1:33:57 PM PST by Wuli
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


17 posted on 02/21/2008 2:57:13 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: gubamyster

Bttt!


18 posted on 02/21/2008 5:50:40 PM PST by TheLion
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To: BFM

Hmmm, I was thinking PALLETS - shoved out of trhe back door of a low flying C-130 - sort of like an ammo drop...


19 posted on 02/21/2008 5:53:04 PM PST by GunnyB (Once a Marine, Always a Marine)
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