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Nicaragua is 'weaponizing' US-bound migrants as Haitians pour in on charter flights, observers say
AP via MSN ^ | October 24, 2023 | MEGAN JANETSKY

Posted on 10/25/2023 4:12:10 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from Haiti have touched down in Nicaragua in recent months, according to flight data and experts in the region, adding to a historic crush of migration by people hoping to reach the U.S.

The flow of migrants has left the Biden administration and Latin American leaders scrambling for solutions, and experts say it's also being used as leverage by governments like Nicaragua’s to get concessions from the U.S. amid tightening sanctions.

“The Ortega government knows they have few important policy tools at hand to confront the United States, ... so they have armed migration as a way to attack," said Manuel Orozco, director of the migration, remittances and development program at the Inter-American Dialogue. “This is definitely a concrete example of weaponizing migration as a foreign policy."

Nicaragua has long been used as a migratory springboard for people fleeing struggling Caribbean nations like Cuba and Haiti as well as countries as far away as Mauritania in Africa, because it is one of the few countries that doesn’t require visas for many of them to enter.

Such flights from Cuba were already gaining steam late last year amid a historic exodus from the island. In August, Orozco said the Nicaraguan government allowed charter airlines to carry out the flights. The journeys are not on official air routes, but flight tracking data that has been analyzed by Orozco and The Associated Press shows that 268 of the charter flights went from Haiti to Nicaragua since the beginning of August.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration; nicaragua
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Stéphanie Armand, a spokesperson for Sunrise Airways, which data show carried out at least 15 flights over the past week, said the company doesn’t sell tickets to Nicaragua, but rather is contracted by “third parties” to carry out the flights. She would not elaborate on who the third parties were.
1 posted on 10/25/2023 4:12:10 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“The flow of migrants has left the Biden administration and Latin American leaders scrambling for solutions...”

BUILD THE DAMNED WALL!


2 posted on 10/25/2023 4:15:05 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Castro reds aiding Nicaraguan Reds to flood the U.S. with agents.


3 posted on 10/25/2023 4:27:40 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Joe Briben is trying to empty out Haiti and Central America and relocate them to the USA,


4 posted on 10/25/2023 4:32:21 AM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Gee this didn’t happen under Trump


5 posted on 10/25/2023 5:09:24 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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Haiti emptying out into the US? Obama's laughing his fool
head off .America was always "too white" for his tastes.

Migrants line up on NYC streets to apply for freebies.

6 posted on 10/25/2023 5:13:54 AM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Some government bass turds need to go to jail for allowing this to happen. The border patrol needs to be shut down because of the waste of money and let the Bidenskyyyyyys set up an illegal alien welcome wagon run by a bunch of ditzy “Karens”.


7 posted on 10/25/2023 5:15:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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To: Liz

Thank a leftist liberal today.


8 posted on 10/25/2023 5:20:37 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (End This Attack On Justice.)
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To: gathersnomoss

Yuck.......you got that right.


9 posted on 10/25/2023 5:25:18 AM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

How long can we survive our own stupidity?


10 posted on 10/25/2023 5:30:12 AM PDT by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Rhetorical:

Why on Earth does no one ever question exactly WHO these “3rd parties” are, let alone the origin of the $$ behind their actions???


11 posted on 10/25/2023 5:49:10 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

i guess word is getting around where to board the democrat bus into amerika


12 posted on 10/25/2023 6:03:29 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: logi_cal869

That’s been bothering me too. Where are our crack investigative journalists on this? Democracy dies in darkness and all that.


13 posted on 10/25/2023 6:09:13 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Unfortunately the village is going to have to ‘burn’ to save it. The best thing could happen is total and severe economic collapse that causes some dynamic where all this third worlders are forced out. Nothing short of that and we rapidly become a brown, third world shithole.


14 posted on 10/25/2023 6:25:39 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Who is financing this invasion?


15 posted on 10/25/2023 6:27:32 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Someone is paying for this. Who?


16 posted on 10/25/2023 6:28:12 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Very bad news here. Then the NGOs will send the Haitians the money and buses to get to the Mexican border.


17 posted on 10/25/2023 6:30:14 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Levy78

yep!


18 posted on 10/25/2023 6:30:55 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Captain Compassion

Our enemies would be fools not to take advantage of our open border. How many prc, russian, iranian special forces teams are already here and close to their targets. Taking advantage of our current regimes’ obsession with tracking down j6 grandmas, instead of real threats.


19 posted on 10/25/2023 6:31:04 AM PDT by ozarker
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hey, the Democrats are running out of dead voters so they are looking to expand their voter base and I’m sure they will welcome them into the US.


20 posted on 10/25/2023 6:50:11 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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