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ICE Air: Shackled deportees, air freshener and cheers. America’s one-way trip out.
WaPo ^ | 8/10/2019 | Nick Miroff

Posted on 08/11/2019 3:08:34 AM PDT by T-Bird45

GUATEMALA CITY — About 45 minutes before descent, the guards went up and down the aisle unshackling the passengers, and the mood in the cabin began to lighten. A mother with a boy near the front was still crying, but they were the only family aboard the flight. Nearly all the other 93 deportees were men, and they began joking and talking excitedly.

Soon Guatemalan territory appeared below, misty and green. A cheer rose.

“You see? They’re smiling!” said Matt Albence, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who spends a great deal of time defending his agency’s core functions, including this: a one-way trip out of the United States on ICE Air. “This is probably better than some of the commercial flights I fly on.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anchorbabies; guatemala; immigration; returnees
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Good start and there needs to be an aluminum overcast of planes southbound with a similar passenger load.
1 posted on 08/11/2019 3:08:34 AM PDT by T-Bird45
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To: T-Bird45

Here’s an Outline.com link so you can avoid the WaPo click, if desired: https://outline.com/uDut5h


2 posted on 08/11/2019 3:09:48 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

Why not a container ship? Much cheaper and you could theoretically load thousands at a time.


3 posted on 08/11/2019 3:16:26 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: T-Bird45

Deport all illegals. No exceptions. Restore the rule of law.


4 posted on 08/11/2019 3:21:12 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: T-Bird45

The “feel good” story of the day. Thanks for posting!!


5 posted on 08/11/2019 3:22:34 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: T-Bird45

THANK YOU!

TYPICAL SICKENING WAPO “poor, victimized deported, illegal aliens.”

Almost all, if not all of the deported interviewed, said they would return, as though illegally crossing our border again was just as normal and easy as crossing a street, which, I reckon, it currently is.


6 posted on 08/11/2019 3:28:33 AM PDT by onyx
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To: Pollster1

AMEN!


7 posted on 08/11/2019 3:29:07 AM PDT by onyx
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To: T-Bird45

A free trip back home for a much needed vacation before returning to work in the good old USA.


8 posted on 08/11/2019 3:32:38 AM PDT by topsail
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To: topsail

Remarks within the article certainly point that direction.


9 posted on 08/11/2019 3:35:12 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: topsail

A free flight home beats walking


10 posted on 08/11/2019 3:37:39 AM PDT by riverrunner ( o the public,)
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To: T-Bird45

My question to the 30 million wetbacks currently flaunting our immigration and residency laws (among many,many other laws)....how can we miss you if you won’t go away?


11 posted on 08/11/2019 3:38:02 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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THANK YOU

I noticed recently that outline doesn’t work anymore with the Boston Heralds new paywall.
bummmer..


12 posted on 08/11/2019 3:46:42 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: onyx

Send the WPO editorial staff on the next flight out. One way tickets of course.


13 posted on 08/11/2019 3:48:23 AM PDT by Russ (I)
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To: T-Bird45

If you don’t mind the WaPo click, the rampant and rabid TDS on display in the Comments after the article is certainly a revealing read.


14 posted on 08/11/2019 3:49:15 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

If you don’t mind the WaPo click, the rampant and rabid TDS on display in the Comments after the article is certainly a revealing read.


15 posted on 08/11/2019 3:49:15 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Russ

I’m all for that!


16 posted on 08/11/2019 3:56:53 AM PDT by onyx
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"ICE Air"

"Your crew would like to welcome you aboard."


17 posted on 08/11/2019 4:30:58 AM PDT by moovova
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To: T-Bird45

Paid for by the American taxpayer. Secure the gd border with military, wall or We the People


18 posted on 08/11/2019 4:34:16 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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Of course they’re smiling. The most pleasant part of “catch and relase” is the release.


19 posted on 08/11/2019 5:48:17 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: eartick

Yep.


20 posted on 08/11/2019 6:26:04 AM PDT by Eagles6
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