Posted on 06/23/2018 1:22:21 PM PDT by TBP
Mexican airline Volaris is offering free flights home for illegal immigrant children in the United States to be reunited with their families.
In a statement released on Friday, the airline said, “It hurts us to see these children without their parents and it is our vocation to reunite them.”
So, what’s the plan? Coordinating with authorities in the U.S, Mexico, and numerous Central American countries, Volaris said it will provide free seating for the children to all the locations on their pre-existing routes — roughly 65 destinations in North and Central America.
Volaris also said in its statement that “Since its founding, Volaris’ mission has been to unite families. Families belong together and our commitment is to help them stay together to better build their future.”
What about American-based airlines? The generous move by Volaris is quite opposite to the response made by several US-based airlines days earlier.
American, Frontier, Southwest and United Airlines all made public announcements this week, saying that transporting children who had been separated under President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy would run counter to their own corporate goals and missions to connect people.
Further, the statements put out by US-based airlines were more focused on having “no part of” what was referred to as “new immigration policies.” American Airlines said specifically: “We have no desire to be associated with separating families, or worse, to profit from it. We have every expectation the government will comply with our request and we thank them for doing so.”
The statement from United Airlines’ CEO Oscar Munoz also said “we have not seen evidence these children have been flown on United aircraft.”
A Department of Homeland Security spokesman, Tyler Houlton, responded to the public stances taken by some US-based airlines, saying: “Despite being provided facts on this issue, these airlines clearly do not understand our immigration laws and the long-standing devastating loopholes that have caused the crisis at our southern border.
“Buckling to a false media narrative only exacerbates the problems at our border and puts more children at risk from traffickers.”
In fairness, the goal expressed by each airline, including Volaris, is to have families be able to remain together. Wherever that might be, is the question at hand when it comes to immigration cases.
This is good news for a change.
Uh, yeah, but that’s not want they want. Open borders is what they want.
Most Mexicans well understand the concept of sending illegals back home as exemplified by this airline.
winning.
I’d be happy for FedGov to pay the airfare . . . for every illegal in our country. Deport them all. No exceptions. But I’m okay with deporting them in style.
Shipping should be cheaper. Once the ship is safely offshore the families could be uncaged.. and then maybe serve as deckhands.
That is a good deal!
Get ‘em on the plane immediately.
THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO CONSIDERS MEXICANS ON US
SOIL TO BE MEXICAN CITIZENS SUBJECT TO THE GOVT OF MEXICO
A sworn affidavit by Mexico’s Consul General to a Texas court asserts that Mexico’s official govt policy is to encourage its poor people to migrate here illegally in order to access our generous welfare system.
The Mexican consul’s sworn testimony asserts: “My responsibilities in this position include protecting the rights and promoting the interests of my fellow Mexican nationals, and, that the main responsibility of consulates is to provide services, assistance, and protection to Mexican nationals abroad.”A footnote states that Mexican nationality is granted to children born abroad of a Mexican born parent. IOW, anchor babies born in the US retain parents Mexican nationality.
Ergo, illegals have two governments looking after their interests.....our govt subsidizing them, and the Mexican govt making sure they collect.
Its time the US govt look after the interests of American citizens.
Just wait, some will complain they didn’t get to sit in first class.
Good Deal, since most of these kids parents ARE in Mexico still.
My understanding is that the most adamantly opposed to illegal immigration people are the LEGAL Hispanic immigrants.
They did it the right way, know it can be done, and resent the tarnished image it saddles them with.
Everyone who sees them immediately thinks they are illegal and it really angers them.
And I can't save as I blame them.
Awesome offer from them!
I wonder why Mexico let them take the 1800 mile journey to the USA in the first place?
Quick! Load up that plane!
How many planes do they have?
We have 30 million + passengers for them.
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