Airline policy you've never heard of might foil your holiday travel plans [for illegal aliens]

SF Gate ^ | November 17, 2021 | by Naomi Tomky

[Oldeconomybuyer]

… A few afternoons each month, I am also a volunteer with an organization that helps migrants released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention reunite with their families. As much as we try to smooth this last leg of the journey, the only part we can control, Delta Airlines’ credit card policy foiled us multiple times last month.

For some number of people, Delta flags their flight bookings and requires the credit card used for purchase to be shown at check-in. There is no way out and no way around it.

The migrants detained by ICE and flown to a detention center exit with little more than the clothes on their back and the colored ID cards ICE gives them while it keeps their passports. Their families are ready and willing to book flights, but sometimes Delta simply does not let them.

Each afternoon, the privately run ICE detention center releases migrants allowed to await their asylum hearing freely, granted asylum or released on bond.

These migrant travelers rarely speak English and often have little concept of what part of the country ICE flew them to before releasing them. (The most common question they ask is the name of the nearest airport.) Almost nobody who comes out had more than an hour or two of a heads-up that they would be released that day. What they almost all share, though, is that they have family or friends, somewhere in the U.S., credit card in hand, ready to book them a flight to Baltimore, New York, Houston or wherever they might live.

The nonprofit supplies shelter, cellphones and warm clothes and helps their families navigate booking a flight.

[JoJo354]

For some strange reason I do not feel sorry for these illegals. And I don’t support these organizations that enable illegals to spread out across our country and then just slip into society and take Americans jobs.

[17th Miss Regt]

Too bad. So sad.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

When I was young, and without a credit card, I used Greyhound and Trailways. That is the way it is done. Flying somewhere was a luxury reserved for the well-to-do.

It is still a luxury if you have no money. Pack those tamales into an outbound dog.

[usurper]

As much as we try to smooth this last leg of the journey.

They are every bit guilty of alien smuggling as the coyote that brought them across the border.

These NGOs should all be prosecuted under 8 USC 1324.

[leaning conservative]

I agree. And I wonder how many get jobs.

[Regulator]

“Migrant travelers”?

I traveled internationally a lot before I retired.

If I needed a visa, I applied for one. Never had a problem. No visa, lotsa problems.

So the people Naomi the Non-American is talking about are not “migrants”, they “invaders” and “trespassers” which is what people are when they enter someone else’s territory without permission.

And their relatives are the problem, because they encourage it and harbor them.

[monkeyshine]

It is kind of a stupid policy. You can’t buy someone else a ticket?

[Sequoyah101]

TSE.

Catholic charities suck. They are the enemy.

[M Kehoe]

Well, don’t let them get here in the first place.

5.56mm

[riverrunner]

Not when one considers CC fraud.

My wife had a first class ticket charged on her CC number.

We caught it on the bill and didn’t have to pay for it.

But if the ticket buyer would have had to show then card the flight would not have happened

[shortstop]

"Catholic charities suck. They are the enemy."

Don't you wonder how many lapsed Catholics have been caused by the participation of Catholic Charities in distributing the invaders illegally throughout the country? Add a Marxist pope to the equation and they may be closing some churches in the country. I've had enough.

Wasted 16 years of Catholic education.

[Nifster]

With you

[Vigilanteman]

Their families are ready and willing to book flights, but sometimes Delta simply does not let them.

All I can say is good for Delta! I don't need to be sharing a cabin with some covid inflicted illegal alien.

[dinodino]

Cry me a river, illegals.

[Dave911]

Well boo f**king hoo! What part of illegal don’t these people understand?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

their passports?

[Paleo Pete]

You’re much more accomodating than I am.

I detest every single ILLEGAL ALIEN that comes here, I want every stinking louse infested one of them marched right back across the border and told do not EVER come back. EVER. Preferably at gunpoint.

[GnuThere]

Yes, they are complicit in the downfall of the country.
And many non-profits have become nothing more than centers for make-work jobs for lazy freaks and people who know how to write for grants.

[Michael.SF.]

Yup. I was ten in 1963, when my dad took me, for the first time, to the Greyhound terminal in downtown LA for a solo trip to Salinas (300 miles) to see my grandparents. He always gave me a fiver for lunch money and tipped the driver the same amount to keep an eye on me. Only problem I ever had was not having a quarter to use the pay toilet.

I could not imagine a parent doing the same today.