[Happy2BMe]

Laughing . .

[Happy2BMe]

Anybody looking for a guick buck who has a commercial airline pilot's license? Cargo handlers?

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is thinking about resuming a program to transport illegal aliens back to their hometowns in Mexico, rather than the present practice of expelling them at the Arizona border.

[dirtboy]

In related news, the ACLU objected to flying illegals back to Mexico because the flights violated the civil rights of the deportees by not providing sufficient packets of honey-roasted peanuts and free sodas.

[AntiGuv]

The charter flight program repatriated more than 14,000 illegal immigrants last year, Zamora said. But it also cost more than $15 million.

Too costly?? For about $12 billion you could deport by air the entire illegal population. That's how much illegal immigrants cost California alone every year...

[sheana]

Wonder if the government will give me free plane rides to Mexico? Would make vacations a heck of alot cheaper.

Stop em at the border and send em walking back the same way they came.

I am sick of taxpayers (mine) being spent on illegals in any way except thru enforcement, both interior and border.

[SC DOC]

They should fly them to Cancun. There are lots of flights available and it will take them a long time to get back to the border.

[rolling_stone]

LOL yeah this worked so well in the past they are trying it again..brought to you by the same govt that thinks Social Security is secure...

They need to build some self sufficient work farms and tent cities to house these illegals and keep them for 30 days the first offense, 60 the next etc until the incentive to come to the US is gone, oh yeah arrest and catch some of the employers and send them there to think about their cheap labor for awhile also...whatever happened to criminal aliens serving their time in their home countries jails? why isn't that agreement being used?

Presidente Bush the buck stops with you, do something now!

[TomGuy]

The charter flight program repatriated more than 14,000 illegal immigrants last year, Zamora said. But it also cost more than $15 million.

Insanity is run-amuk at HSD.

Charter flights? That's nothing more than a vacation home. Give the returnee 2 weeks, and he is probably back across the border, anyway.

14,000 returned last year? What about he other thousands upon thousands of illegals who slipped through and who didn't get sent back?

Instead of wasting $1071 per returnee, as on FReeper suggested a couple of weeks ago, put them to work as punishment--have them be building a fence across the southern border.

[lodwick]

Maybe Phuket Airline will step up here.

[beethovenfan]

OK, as long as we bill the Mexican government for the cost.
(Good luck!)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

A few of these would do it!

[JimRed]

Said before, but...to repeat; collect a shipload of illegals and drop them off at Tierra Del Fuego. It's a long walk back from there!

[Skybird]

There's a whole fleet of retired C-141s in storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ. Reactivate the newer ones and turn the mission over to an Air National Guard unit . . .

[kennedy]

These days, if a Mexican national detained for illegal entry volunteers to return to his home country without going through formal deportation proceedings, he is escorted across the border and left in the immediate border area, which, in Arizona, often means long stretches of desert.

If we want to deter them from trying again, we should be dropping them off at the Mexico/Guatemala border.

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[BJungNan]

bump for later read.

[Richard-SIA]

Program is flawed by the fact it takes the invaders "home".

It should take them to the furthest possible point from the U.S. that is still in Mexico, if the invaders are from Mex.

I strongly suspect that cast off former cruise ships manned by our Coast Guard would be slower, but cheaper, as they could take back many more at a time.