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Refugee flights to US canceled after Trump order
The Hill ^ | 01/22/2025 | Rebecca Beitsch and Laura Kelly

Posted on 01/22/2025 8:25:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The State Department has suspended flights bringing previously approved refugees to the United States, cutting off access to protection in advance of the timeline set by President Trump in a new order pausing the program.

An email reviewed Wednesday by The Associated Press, the U.S. agency overseeing refugee processing and arrival told staff and stakeholders that “refugee arrival to the United States have been suspended until further notice.”

The suspension of flights indicates early action on an order that didn’t direct movement from agencies until Jan. 27.

The State Department did not return a request for comment, but a page on refugee admissions was already unavailable.

A Day 1 order from Trump pauses the refugee program for a minimum of three months, calling for the departments of State and of Homeland Security to issue a report within 90 days detailing whether it’s in the nation’s interests to resume the admission of refugees.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canceled; flights; refugee; trump; us
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1 posted on 01/22/2025 8:25:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Refugee flights to US = Insanity anyway


2 posted on 01/22/2025 8:29:13 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“approved refugees”

Approved by whom??? That POS mayorakas who i hope is in hiding for fear of imprisonment??


3 posted on 01/22/2025 8:29:59 AM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I know a NY fireman that saw the airport take in flights of illegals after midnight and bus them all out before the am rush so people didn’t notice


4 posted on 01/22/2025 8:31:30 AM PST by albie (U)
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5 posted on 01/22/2025 8:33:00 AM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No Vacancy. We’re full!


6 posted on 01/22/2025 8:35:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Dark Days are over. We don't want your criminals. Stop sending your scum to America!)
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To: God luvs America

Haitians.


7 posted on 01/22/2025 8:37:12 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27
If you fly them, they will come. Sheeze!

Follow the money on this.

8 posted on 01/22/2025 8:37:40 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: butlerweave

Exactly.


9 posted on 01/22/2025 8:42:21 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: God luvs America

Approved by whom???

0bama and Tehran


10 posted on 01/22/2025 9:08:56 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They have a right to apply for a refugee status at the American embassy in their own country, after which American immigration jurists in America will investigate and consider the application. They don’t get to come here and pretend to wait for their immigration hearing, knowing once here they will just ignore that and stay here illegally.


11 posted on 01/22/2025 9:12:24 AM PST by Wuli
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank God!


12 posted on 01/22/2025 9:47:02 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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“Refugee flights to US = Insanity anyway”

No kidding. There should be a ONE YEAR moratorium on “refugee flights” as well as all interior flights hauling illegals to every corner of the nation under cover of darkness.


13 posted on 01/22/2025 9:48:37 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“There should be a ONE YEAR moratorium on “refugee flights” “

Nope. Just cancel them forever. We have no obligation to do anything like that except in a declared emergency with associated evacuation that can be authorized on a case-by-case basis.


14 posted on 01/22/2025 9:54:48 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: albie

That’s been happening here as well. Late night, small town, long runway with no commercial planes.


15 posted on 01/22/2025 9:56:17 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (Abortion is just a new spin on human sacrifice by worshiperswere of self and selfishness. )
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To: Regulator; ProtectOurFreedom

I agree with Regulator on this. They should be cancelled for good, never to occur ever again.

If we need focused refugee flights (such as we should have had for Afghans who put their lives on the line and worked with us, and who were DIRECTLY vetted by Americans who had worked with them in country) we could initiate the process specifically for them.

It is an abomination and a traitorous attack on the sovereignty of this nation that those flights were EVER taking place under the cover of darkness and a shroud of deception.


16 posted on 01/22/2025 10:08:22 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel; Regulator

I agree with you both that these secret, cover of darkness flights to the interior of the USA are an abomination, an affront to the nation, and should are ended permanently. I was thinking an immediate one year moratorium would allow for planning for a permanent elimination of the program.

But Trump might only have a two-year runway to get things done and burning up a whole year of that would be bad. He has them knocked back on their heels now and should continue going for broke.


17 posted on 01/22/2025 10:14:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey. Welcome to ‘Merica. Its a big government. Sometimes stupid stuff happens and there is just no recourse.


18 posted on 01/22/2025 10:18:04 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Absolutely. Hold their heads underwater, don’t let them up to breathe!

(I understand the distinction you make)


19 posted on 01/22/2025 10:52:15 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They just need to operate in the opposite direction.


20 posted on 01/22/2025 10:55:34 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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