Thread: U.S.-Mexico resume voluntary interior repatriation program

United States, Mexico resume voluntary interior repatriation program

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent this bulletin on 07/11/2011 02:33 PM EDT

TUCSON, Ariz. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican Ministry of the Interior announced Monday that the Mexican Interior Repatriation Program (MIRP) - a bilateral, voluntary program that ensures the safe return of Mexican nationals found to be unlawfully in the Sonora Arizona desert region of the United States to their places of residence in the Mexican interior - has resumed for the eighth consecutive summer.

First initiated in 2004, MIRP was designed as a bilateral effort between the United States and Mexico to reduce the loss of human life and to break the cycle of organized crime linked to the smuggling, trafficking and exploitation of migrants along the Arizona/Mexico border. Under MIRP, Mexican nationals apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in the Yuma and Tucson sectors are taken to DHS facilities in Nogales and Yuma, Ariz., where candidates are medically screened, meet with Mexican Consulate officials and are offered the opportunity to voluntarily participate in the program.

"MIRP reflects our commitment to effective enforcement of our immigration laws while simultaneously prioritizing the humane treatment of detainees throughout the removal process," said Thomas D. Homan, deputy executive associate director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

"Indeed, this program is one more example of how cooperation between our countries can lead to solutions to common problems," said Salvador Beltran del Rio, commissioner of Mexico's National Migration Institute.

"The Mexican Interior Repatriation Program offers illegal aliens an opportunity to voluntarily return to their homes, away from the dangers of the Sonoran Desert, and demonstrates how the governments of Mexico and the United States are working together to save lives," said Randy Hill, chief patrol agent of the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector.

As a humanitarian program, candidates for MIRP also include those who are identified as "at risk" due to criteria like age, physical condition or distance from their hometowns, as these populations are particularly vulnerable to heat or risk of victimization by criminals operating in border regions. Aliens who have been convicted of violent crimes are ineligible to participate in MIRP.

Individuals who volunteer to participate in the program are flown from Tucson International Airport to Mexico City via daily flights coordinated by ICE ERO and Mexican authorities. Upon arriving in Mexico City, participants are provided bus transportation to their hometowns in Mexico's interior.

This year's first repatriation flight departed Tucson International Airport Monday, and flights are scheduled to continue this year through Sept. 28.

More than 102,000 Mexican nationals have been safely returned under MIRP since it started in 2004.

http://content.govdelivery.com/bulletin ... SICE-b436f

More than 102,000 Mexican nationals have been safely returned under MIRP since it started in 2004.

On the scale of things, that's not a lot considering...

Individuals who volunteer to participate in the program are flown from Tucson International Airport to Mexico City via daily flights coordinated by ICE ERO and Mexican authorities.

This program has been running for 7-8 years with daily flights.

This year's flight dates are between July 11

flights are scheduled to continue this year through Sept. 28.

That's 11 weeks or about 80 days.

Capacity
747-400 - Flight crew of two. Typical three class seating for 416 (23 first, 78 business and 315 economy class pax). Cargo hold 170.5m3 (6025cuft) or 151m3 (5332cuft).
747-400 Domestic - Two class seating for 568 (24 first and 544 economy). http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/ ... ain?id=100

Boeing 747 has the seating capacity is more than 366(Using a low number of an older 747).

So 366 times 80 days is 29,280 people a day. At this rate, 120,000 passengers would have been reached in 4.09 80 day periods or a little over 4 summers.

This is really a testament to the inefficiency of deportation. Either they are wasting money by daily flights of planes that are not full or they are using small planes and not deporting as many people as possible per trip. I hope they are filling it with people who are unwillingly being deported.

DO THE MATH!!!!!

If a plane were flying at full capacity (366), 279 flights will carry 102,000 people. Less than a year of daily flights will carry as many as have been taken in the last 7 years.

If a plane were flying at full capacity (366), 365 days a year it could transport 133,600 people in a year. More than the total taken in 7 years.

For Fun...
If a plane were flying at full capacity (366) for 80 days over the last 7 years, a total of 204,960 passengers could have been taken. That's 84,960 more than 120,000 or roughly 71% more.

Guess I need to know a little more about the load capacity of the planes they are using. However, I feel the example is a reasonable estimate. I could have greatly exaggerated and used the 747-400 capacity of 568 passengers.

The last and final factor not considered, it what during the Obama administrations supervision of this program, the number of deportations has decreased annually since 2008. This program may have had better results in the years prior to Obama's term. Since I do not have an annual breakdown of the deportation numbers, it's hard to determine if the success of the program has diminished under Obama's policy amnesty.

Dixie

UPDATE:

In keeping with the mutually agreed principles, the program is designed to remove up to 300 aliens per day and is only made available to Mexican nationals. Illegal aliens with felony convictions will not be eligible for the program. Candidates will not be separated from their family members. If the entire family does not wish to participate then no one in the family will be eligible. Unaccompanied minors will not be allowed to participate in the program.

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/new ... 082005.xml

300 x 80 days = 24,000 per summer.
120,000 divided by 24,000 = 5 summers.

I wonder if they have caught any trying to re-enter at a later date?

I would bet my life savings that they have!

I'm just sure Mexico is paying for this Right ?

DHS is always making the excuse they only have the money to remove about 400,000 a yr..Why not use this opportunity to remove every Mexican IA caught in the USA NOT just newbies. Fill every seat in every plane and don't waste taxpayer money.

Anything that gets rid of 1 illegal alien from any country makes me happy,

so 102,000 gone really makes me happy.

Repatriation program flies illegal immigrants home

Posted: Jul 11, 2011 6:26 PM
Updated: Jul 11, 2011 6:32 PM


TUCSON - For the eighth consecutive summer U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is flying illegal immigrants who are caught in Arizona's desert home to Mexico.

This summer's first flight left Tucson International Airport on Monday afternoon.

Typically illegal immigrants from Mexico are deported just across the border.

Officials hope flying them inland to Mexico City will discourage them from crossing again. And they hope that will save lives during the summer. But others call the program a waste of money.

The program hopes to fly 126 illegal immigrants a day to Mexico City, where the immigrants receive bus tickets to their home towns.

Tom Homan, Deputy Executive Assistant Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, says, "We do this between the months of June and September because that's the hottest months of the year. And that's when most of them perish in the desert area."

Since 2004, Immigration and Customs flew about 102,000 illegal immigrants home to Mexico at a cost of roughly $85 million or $840 per person.

Homan says, "Our data shows that we have 90 to 96 percent success rate, which means these people aren't back in the mix for many, many months, if at all."

Homan believes in the long run the program actually saves taxpayers' money.

He says, "That's less aliens re-crossing the border, which saves resources for the Border Patrol."

Kat Rodriguez, who works for the illegal immigrant advocacy group Coalicion de Derechos Humanos, does not believe the program saves lives. She says, "It's a waste of money because it's not addressing the real reason people are coming."

Rodriguez says, "When a human rights organization was interviewing people coming off those planes, 8 out of 10 were saying they intended to cross again at some point in the near future."

Immigration and Customs officials expect this summer's program to cost between $9 and 11 million.

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Homan says, "Our data shows that we have 90 to 96 percent success rate, which means these people aren't back in the mix for many, many months, if at all."

Homan believes in the long run the program actually saves taxpayers' money.

He says, "That's less aliens re-crossing the border, which saves resources for the Border Patrol."

Kat Rodriguez, who works for the illegal immigrant advocacy group Coalicion de Derechos Humanos, does not believe the program saves lives. She says, "It's a waste of money because it's not addressing the real reason people are coming."

Rodriguez says, "When a human rights organization was interviewing people coming off those planes, 8 out of 10 were saying they intended to cross again at some point in the near future."

Immigration and Customs officials expect this summer's program to cost between $9 and 11 million.

Damn that will make finding someone to take my bet much, much harder.

Related: http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-243301.html

Why fly them back? Make them walk back the same way they came here. No need to spend money on air service. Make sure they are not taking any money or possessions back also.

I wonder if they get served a meal and peanuts onthe flights back to tacoland?