Trump stops US Military Deportation flights…..

REALITY CHECK…..

Trump’s ….’We’ll be doing MASS DEPORTATION’S’ Just ain’t happening….

Nor will they….

ICE simply has NOT been able to do it….

The flights to Guantanamo and other countries usually have few ”detainees‘.

The Air Force uses smaller C-130 and C-17 Jets….

The flights COST SEVERAL MILLION Dollars EACH….

That can be Double or TRIPLE the cost of shipping people on the regular US Customs own aircraft or private airplanes….

Trump ACTUAL migrant chase has actually been a FRACTION of what he’s sold to the public….

(The PUBLIC SELL goes on to mostly deaf ears now)

Obama has done more….

 

The Trump administration has stopped using military aircraft to fly migrants who entered the U.S. illegally to Guantanamo Bay or other countries, defense officials said.

President Trump has made a crackdown on illegal immigration a focus of his second term. But using military aircraft to transport some migrants to their home countries or to a military base at Guantanamo Bay has proved expensive and inefficient, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

The last military deportation flight was March 1, officials said. The Pentagon said Tuesday that no such flights were scheduled for the next 48 hours. A flight scheduled for Thursday was canceled, a defense official said. The pause on such flights could be extended or made permanent, officials said.

Soon after Trump took office in January, his administration began using military aircraft for flights traditionally handled by the Department of Homeland Security to transfer some migrants to other countries and to U.S. military facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The administration wanted the military flights to send a message about their intent to get tough on immigrants in the country illegally, defense officials said….

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The administration wanted the military flights to send a message about their intent to get tough on immigrants in the country illegally, defense officials said…

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But the military flights have taken longer routes and transported fewer migrants at higher cost to taxpayers than the government’s typical deportation flights on civilian aircraft, the Journal found.

Three deportation flights to India cost $3 million each. Some flights carried a dozen people to Guantanamo at a cost of at least $20,000 per migrant, the Journal’s analysis showed.

A standard U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight costs $8,500 per flight hour, according to a government webpage. Former ICE officials told the Journal the figure is closer to $17,000 per flight hour for international trips.

It costs $28,500 per hour to fly a C-17, which is designed to carry heavy cargo and troops, according to U.S. Transportation Command, which provided the aircraft.

Adding to costs, the C-17s haven’t been using Mexico’s airspace, which can add several hours to flights destined for Central and South America. Mexico and some other countries in Latin America haven’t allowed the military flights to land and have instead sent their own aircraft or arranged for deportees to travel on commercial flights…

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