Posted on 02/08/2009 8:33:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The nondescript 737 jet taxied to the front of the runway line at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Aboard the flight, 53 passengers stared out windows as their rising plane banked toward Mexico and their handcuffs glinted in the morning sun.
This is U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Flight Repatriate, a booming airline ferrying illegal immigrants out of the country.
Flying worldwide from O'Hare and 22 other airports, the so-called ICE Air planes transported more than 367,000 illegal immigrants, including 11,500 from the Chicago area, out of the U.S. from October 2007 to October 2008—a 26 percent increase over the previous fiscal year and 77 percent more than in 2006.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently called for ways to "expedite removal" of thousands more illegal immigrants. The directive surprised advocates who have been lobbying for fewer deportations while they build momentum to reintroduce Immigration reform legislation in Congress by July.
"That was a signal to me that we need to work quicker and speak more effectively to the Obama camp," said Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who is organizing Immigration rallies in 14 cities.
"The vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't violate any law, other than their Immigration status," Gutierrez argued.
On board Flight Repatriate during a recent trip to the border near El Paso, Texas, the passengers embodied the dashed dreams of deported immigrants everywhere.
Some fretted over U.S.-born children. Others stewed over U.S. residency applications filed years ago. On a flight where many passengers were convicted of other U.S. crimes, still more grappled with alcoholism and other demons that make them poster targets for arrest.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
Oh no you don't. One ZERO (in the White House) is all we can handle.
Cheers!
Anti Gutierrez, anti-Obamessiah Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!
...and the vast majority of Obama's Cabinet appointees haven't violated any law, other than their income taxes."
Thanks, folks. Try the hydraulic brake fluid, it's very good tonight. I'll be here all week.
Cheers!
I wonder if the passengers were billed for the ticket price?????
Right. Put in the stimulus. ;)
Yeah, that’s change we can believe in! Spend a few billion on illegal removal and I’ll support the porkulus.
Buh Bye
Media drama queens.
Take the H1B’s with you
[. . .planes transported more than 367,000 illegal immigrants. . .]
That’s 367,000 less Democrat voters.
That statement is not true. A vast majority commit crimes of tax evasion, using false identity, driving with out license, etc etc. They just aren’t caught.
Every national airline that flies here should be tasked to fly back illegals. The govts would then start to figure out a solution.
Pick out any individual illegal and I will bet that they are violating numerous laws besides immigration.
That # is only a drop in the bucket compare to what is here.
You won't get an argument from me ...
No porkulus please.
10 strokes with a cane on the way out and 10 strokes with a cane to the employer for every employee some jerk hires without proper documentation. 25 strokes on the second offense all around.
Set up a work visa program that will NEVER lead to citiizenship. Bring in reasonable numbers of vetted workers from many countries with preference given to those who speak English.
They pay taxes. They get social security. They don’t have unreasonable access to welfare programs. They get treated properly by employers and paid properly. They don’t die in the desert any more or pay coyotes sick amounts of money to abuse them while they smuggle them in.
Immediate increased employment for Americans and problem solved. Why do we make this so difficult?
Oh I forgot - half the country lacks the ability to think.
Make sure that every American that needs a job has one before bringing in foreigners
But using a plane adds to global warming!!!
And we can’t have that.
It would be much greener to give them leaky boats and unicycles for their repatriation.
-R
Some good news for a change.
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