[2ndDivisionVet]

Now there's a government program I can get behind! Let's add several zeroes to those numbers.

[grey_whiskers]

"Now there's a government program I can get behind! Let's add several zeroes to those numbers."

Oh no you don't. One ZERO (in the White House) is all we can handle.

Cheers!

[Man50D]

"The vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't violate any law, other than their Immigration status," Gutierrez argued.

Other than their immigration status? That's the whole point! They are all violating the law and therefore are all criminals Mr. Gutierrez!

[grey_whiskers]

"The vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't violate any law, other than their Immigration status," Gutierrez argued.

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!

[RobinOfKingston]

I wonder if the passengers were billed for the ticket price?????

[sageb1]

Right. Put in the stimulus. ;)

[Rastus]

Yeah, that’s change we can believe in! Spend a few billion on illegal removal and I’ll support the porkulus.

[clamper1797]

Buh Bye

[Spirochete]

53 passengers stared out windows as their rising plane banked toward Mexico and their handcuffs glinted in the morning sun.

Media drama queens.

[clamper1797]

Take the H1B’s with you

[Brad from Tennessee]

[. . .planes transported more than 367,000 illegal immigrants. . .]

That’s 367,000 less Democrat voters.

[nbhunt]

I bet we could raise enough contributions to add a few more planes to deport more. But the radical Muslims need to go also while we're deporting. Get rid of them all.

That # is only a drop in the bucket compare to what is here.

[JRios1968]

Hey, hey, hey...GOODBYE!!!

[Humal]

Some good news for a change.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

[Myrddin]

It's a paying proposition to deport them in this fashion. For the cost of an airline ticket, you save a ton of public assistance payments from that point forward. Who says you can't round them up and deport them? It's good for the airline industry too. That fills seats at full fare. What's not to like?

[Hildy]

Planes going out...then planes coming in...

Pres. Obama Invites Hamas Terrorists to America

[Isabel C.]

"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.

Gutierrez is probably the most pro-illegal immigration member of Congress. He obviously considers himself a Hispanic first and an American second.

[paddles]

Actually, this is how we provide them a free trip home to visit their families. They come back a few weeks later laughing at the stupid gringos who provided them no-cost transportation home for R & R.

[Vaduz]

53 passengers stared out windows as their rising plane banked toward Mexico and their handcuffs glinted in the morning sun,Now that is what I call hope and hope they keep it going.

[eddiespaghetti]

[SORRY FOR THE LONG POST].

Apart from everything else wrong with this article, it is very misleading (UNDERSTATEMENT ALERT) regarding the legal process that got those 53 aliens (and the other 357,000)in handcuffs and on a plane back to their country of citizenship and/or nationality.

Unless someone is apprehended at the border while trying to sneak in, or is denied entry at a port or airport, an alien who is here illegally does not get ‘shipped home’ right after he is stopped or picked up by the Feds.

Most of these folks, IINM, have already been through the “immigration process,” and are under what is termed “an outstanding order of deportation (or removal),” by which an Immigration Judge has ordered them removed from the U.S. In other words, they’ve had their day in court, and lost, and either did not file an appeal or they exhausted all appeals (with the Board of Immigration Appeals, which, upon denial, can then be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for their particular Circuit).

Or, some may simply not have appeared for their hearing in Immigration Court, and when that happens, the IJ issues an order of “removal in absentia.” I’ll bet some of the orders on these guys date from the 1990s or even earlier.

Furthermore, their home government (in this case, Mexico) has acknowledged the nationality of these 53, b.c. Uncle Sam does not remove an alien to any country unless that country’s government has agreed to take them back.

The article is also extraordinarily disingenuous in stating - or even suggesting - that most of the 53 did not commit any crimes here. (Not talking now their about illegal entry or working without authorization, using false S.S.#s, etc.) Unless the reporter has access to law enforcement data bases, he is simply not in a position to know.

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