Posted on 09/28/2021 11:55:35 PM PDT by blueplum
WASHINGTON —The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied U.S. landing rights for a charter plane carrying more than 100 Americans and U.S. green card holders evacuated from Afghanistan, organizers of the flight said.
"They will not allow a charter on an international flight into a U.S. port of entry," Bryan Stern, a founder of non-profit group Project Dynamo, said of the department's Customs and Border Protection agency.
Stern spoke to Reuters from aboard a plane his group chartered from Kam Air, a private Afghan airline, that he said had been sitting for 14 hours at Abu Dhabi airport after arriving from Kabul with 117 people, including 59 children.
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What the heck is going on in this country?
This is a sad moment in our history...
Okay, I suspected it and now I know it’s true. For some reason, they want those people dead.
They are just Afghans with green cards and US passports.
Perhaps Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis should allow them to land in Florida and tell the feds to shove it...
I just thought the same thing. They want them dead.
Why?
what do they know and what don’t they want us to know about Afghanistan?
Spite. Just spite, that’s all. Disgusting.
And why not?
Is there any slightest indication that the American people would either stop,seriously attempt to stop, or raise hell in the streets about this?
Our communist masters are living large and in total control...
This is just the barebones beginning...
When Americans realize how bad things are, they will band together, once again, at Concord Bridge and chant:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
So let Abu Dabi take them in.
Obama’s revenge for killing his minion goat humping terrorists
They should board to Mexico and cross the border freely.
This reads like troll stuff.
Americans are not wanted because they cannot be used orcontrolled
The link has a blank page. It may be fake.
Linkie no workie
Oh, this one’s easy. These guys are LEGAL, so they must not be allowed back in.
Here is the MSN version of Reuters original article:
Reuters
U.S. bars flight from landing with Americans from Kabul - activists
(Corrects number of Americans on plane to 28 from 6 in 9th paragraph)
Fly into Mexico then walk across the border.
I’d take that so-called correction with a grain of salt considering the source.
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