Thread: Inside an I.C.E. Deportation Flight

Inside an I.C.E. Deportation Flight

Updated: Thursday, 23 Sep 2010, 12:15 PM MDT
Published : Thursday, 23 Sep 2010, 10:44 AM MDT

MESA - FOX 10 boards one of the many deportation flights that leave Mesa each week, headed south of the border, and we're showing you an inside look.

This flight is headed to the heart of central America, on its way to drop off hundreds of illegal immigrants back in their native country.

The hope is these immigrants will be so far from Arizona once they step off the plane that they'll never come back -- because the trip would be too much to undertake.

For illegal immigrants, it's a one-way ticket back home, but for taxpayers, is this a first-class ripoff?

ICE says it costs $1,000 to fly one person back to central America. With 130 passengers per plane, that's $130,000 per flight.

ICE flies one to three planes per day, five days per week. That averages out to 10 flights a week, which is 520 flights a year -- and nearly $68 million a year.

The ICE facility in Mesa is one of four deportation centers across the country with the same process. Total it up, that's $300 million per year. Money that comes out of the Homeland Security budget, and your tax dollars.

The question is, is this a colossal waste of money, or a necessary expense in the fight against illegal immigration?

To answer that question, today's guests are Neville Cramer, who worked for the Immigration and Naturalization Services for 25 years, and state lawmaker Jon Kavanagh, one of the architects of some of the toughest immigration laws in the state.

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I would rather spend the money on enforcement and deportations than welfare, free education, medical, et al for illegal aliens. Money well spent!

WHY CAN'T THEY DO THE SAME WITH MEXICANS THEY SHOULD FLY THEM SO DEEP INTO MEXICO JUST LIKE IKE DID DURING OPERATION WET BACK. THAT WAY THEY WON'T FIND THEIR WAY BACK TO THE U.S QUITE SO SOON IF AT ALL. WHY IS IT THAT THIS ONE GROUP OF ILLEGALS ARE TREATED DIFFERENTLY AND MEXICANS ARE TREATED BETTER IMO MEXICANS CAN BE DEPORTED TODAY, AND THEY ARE RIGHT BACK IN THE COUNTRY TOMORROW. WHY THE HELL IS THAT

Originally Posted by LadyStClaire

WHY CAN'T THEY DO THE SAME WITH MEXICANS ? . . .

They do.

More than 93,000 Mexican nationals have been safely returned under MIRP over the program's previous six summers.

United States, Mexico resume voluntary interior repatriation program
Jun 3, 2010 ... Individuals who volunteer to participate in the program are flown to Mexico City via daily flights coordinated by ICE Detention and Removal ...
www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1006/100603tucson.htm

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United States, Mexico resume voluntary interior repatriation

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject: United States, Mexico resume voluntary interior repatriation . . .
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ALIPAC Forums-viewtopic-I.C.E. News Releases June 2010

6/3/2010 Tucson, AZ United States, Mexico resume voluntary interior repatriation program . . .
www.alipac.us/ftopict-204630.html