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Old July 14th, 2004, 01:10 AM
InfoGuy123
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I'm glad to see that, as reported in The Los Angeles Times report below
today, illegal aliens who are being given free plane trips back home by the
gringos (in addition to free bus tickets to their hometowns once they arrive)
are also being feted with the virtually "first-class" in-flight treatment they
deserve for having snuck into the US illegally, taken jobs that might otherwise
been had by US citizens and driven illegally (and often drunk) on our roads.
One only wonders how long it'll take word to spread in the illegal alien
underground that, if you're an illegal alien, all you have to do is purposely
get caught by US immigration officials in order to receive a free trip home for
a brief vacation.

Glad to see that our traitorous government feeding these illegal aliens
in-flight meals (see the Times report below)!

Heck, when I flew to the East Coast last month and back to California on
Delta Airlines (unlike the lucky illegal aliens referred to above, I had to pay
around $800 for the privilege, as I recall) in contrast to these illegal aliens
we weren't fed ANYTHING other than a skimpy bag of microscopic cheeze crackers.
That's IT. Only First Class passengers were fed.

This is what we (US citizens) get for electing the people who voted for that
humongous multi-billion dollar airlines bailout right after 9/11 -- you know,
the bailout that turned out to really have little to do with 9/11 but whose
millionaire CEO backers used that tragedy as an excuse to mooch billions of
taxpayer dollars from the government. Now that they've taken those many
billions of taxpayer dollars (a good deal of which certainly feathered their
own nests, to be sure) they just "can't find the money" to feed their paying
customers, I guess.

In sum: If you're a legal US citizen who pays his/her own money to buy a
plane ticket from an American airline, expect to go hungry until you land and
then relish the treat of paying $9.00 (as I did at Dallas/Ft. Worth recently)
for an airport sandwich.

On the other hand, if you're an illegal alien and the US government has
decided to reward you with an all-expenses-paid combined flight/bus trip back
home to see the follks (and, like the illegal aliens quoted below, even if you
openly say you're going to sneak back into the USA again in a couple of weeks)
then you can expect to be able to honestly say to the stewardess serving your
hot meal, "I'm flying First Class - charge it to Uncle Sam!"

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http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-deport1...,3766248.story

Illegal Immigrants Receive a One-Way Ticket to Mexico
By Chris Kraul
Times Staff Writer

July 13, 2004

MEXICO CITY — The first repatriation flight of Mexicans caught illegally
crossing the Arizona border landed here Monday evening, kicking off a new
deportation program that could return thousands of border crossers deep into
Mexico.

U.S. officials say using planes to ferry Mexicans home — rather than dropping
them off at the border — will save lives, keep migrants away from smugglers
and discourage repeated attempts at sneaking back into the United States.

But 20-year-old Hector Dimas, among the 138 migrants who disembarked from a
chartered Mexicana Airlines flight, said the program would not quash his effort
to return to work in the United States.

"I will be going back in 15 days," said Dimas, who has worked in construction
in Dallas for the last four years. "I need to work. The jobs in Mexico don't
pay anything."

Seven of eight deportees interviewed in a half-hour period Monday said they
would recross the border soon.

"I'll try again in a month," said 34-year-old Juan Mora, who was caught on his
way back to his wife and two children in Richardson, Texas, after visiting
relatives in Mexico. The landscape worker had made four successful crossings
until this weekend, when he was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Like Mora, the migrants who arrived here Monday had agreed to leave a federal
detention facility in Tucson and take the free flight home.

Each chartered flight will cost U.S. taxpayers $28,000. As many as 300 migrants
will be returned daily. By Thursday, the repatriation operation will include
daily flights from Tucson to Guadalajara, as well as to Mexico City. Migrants
agreeing to participate in the program will be given bus vouchers to take them
from the airports to their hometown.

U.S. officials have pledged to avoid the use of shackles, restraints and
handcuffs in transporting the migrants. On Monday, the deported migrants said
they had received a meal of spinach pasta and soft drinks during the three-hour
flight.

U.S. and Mexican officials say they hope the joint "voluntary repatriation"
program will reduce the number of migrant deaths in the brutal heat of the
Arizona desert this summer.

Mexican officials reported that 422 people died last year trying to enter the
United States through California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Arizona had
the most fatalities. Through June 21, at least 148 Mexicans have died this year
along the border in the Southwest.

Although they acknowledge that the program might save lives, migrant advocates
say the U.S. is motivated by more than sympathy. They note that the Border
Patrol recently launched an aggressive campaign to round up illegal immigrants.

Border Patrol officials say they hope the new repatriation plan, like several
others over the last decade, will discourage illegal immigration by making it
more expensive for the deportees.

"One of the main reasons is to drive up the cost of crossing again, to break
the relationship between the migrants and their polleros, or traffickers, who
typically include several tries in the prices they quote," said Claudia Smith
of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, a migrant advocacy group
based in Oceanside.

"It remains to be seen what percentage of the thousands caught at the border
each week will opt for a free ride home," said Wayne Cornelius, a professor and
immigration expert at UC San Diego. "But bus tickets are cheap in Mexico, and
even from the southern part of the country it should cost only about $100 and
take two or three days for the average migrant to get back to the border.

"Determined, economically motivated migrants will not be deterred from trying
again until they succeed," Cornelius said.

Critics say previous repatriation programs have failed because they were costly
and could not be shown to discourage repeat crossings. The United States has
approved $13 million for the current program to run through September.

Repatriation is a sensitive political issue in Mexico, and U.S. and Mexican
authorities took months to agree on this program.

Before the migrants boarded the Mexicana flight, they were informed by Mexican
consular officials in Tucson that the repatriation was voluntary, Mexican
officials said. Because Mexican law guarantees freedom of movement within its
borders, any forced repatriation would be illegal.

The Foreign Ministry here said in a statement that Mexico and the U.S. had
agreed to the "deep repatriation" plan to "avoid [migrant] deaths and abuses
committed by human traffickers."

By some estimates, Mexicans account for up to 95% of all illegal crossings in
the Southwest border region.

In the Border Patrol's Tucson district alone, an average of 2,300 Mexicans have
been detained every day since March, when enforcement was tightened, a
spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said.

Arizona's lightly patrolled desert has become the favored point of entry for
migrants and the traffickers who shepherd them since the Border Patrol made
crossings along the San Diego County border tougher.

But the shift to Arizona carries enormous risks for migrants, especially during
summer, when desert temperatures exceed 100 degrees.

Migrant advocates say the high death rate among crossers shows they are willing
to accept those risks.


"If ye love wealth better than liberty ... servitude better than ... freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms ... May your
chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams
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Old July 14th, 2004, 02:56 PM
Jeff Hacker
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Default Illegal Alien Airways: We treat you better than paying citizens!

The problem with airline meals (or the lack of them) has nothing to do with
illegal immigrants. On U.S. carriers, the lack of inflight meals is due
solely to the willingness of passengers to choose one airline over another
over as little as $2 a ticket. Airline food isn't a consideration.

And Delta, while no longer providing meals in domestic coach, does offer
food for sale on flights over 3 1/2 hours, so you shouldn't have starved.
The prices are relatively reasonable.

I agree that U.S. domestic airline service sucks, but it is largely a result
of deregulation and the discount carriers. Americans haven't shown any
interest in a nominal upgraded class of service (such as the "Premium
Economy" offered on several international carriers) since the early 1970's
when First Class, Coach, and Economy (basically coach without meals) service
was offered on flights to Hawaii by Pan Am and United. For $10 more than
economy, you got a coach ticket, which basically was nothing more than the
same service with meals.a slightly upgraded service at a slightly higher
fare??


Jeff
"InfoGuy123" wrote in message
...
I'm glad to see that, as reported in The Los Angeles Times report below
today, illegal aliens who are being given free plane trips back home by

the
gringos (in addition to free bus tickets to their hometowns once they

arrive)
are also being feted with the virtually "first-class" in-flight treatment

they
deserve for having snuck into the US illegally, taken jobs that might

otherwise
been had by US citizens and driven illegally (and often drunk) on our

roads.
One only wonders how long it'll take word to spread in the illegal alien
underground that, if you're an illegal alien, all you have to do is

purposely
get caught by US immigration officials in order to receive a free trip

home for
a brief vacation.

Glad to see that our traitorous government feeding these illegal aliens
in-flight meals (see the Times report below)!

Heck, when I flew to the East Coast last month and back to California on
Delta Airlines (unlike the lucky illegal aliens referred to above, I had

to pay
around $800 for the privilege, as I recall) in contrast to these illegal

aliens
we weren't fed ANYTHING other than a skimpy bag of microscopic cheeze

crackers.
That's IT. Only First Class passengers were fed.

This is what we (US citizens) get for electing the people who voted for

that
humongous multi-billion dollar airlines bailout right after 9/11 -- you

know,
the bailout that turned out to really have little to do with 9/11 but

whose
millionaire CEO backers used that tragedy as an excuse to mooch billions

of
taxpayer dollars from the government. Now that they've taken those many
billions of taxpayer dollars (a good deal of which certainly feathered

their
own nests, to be sure) they just "can't find the money" to feed their

paying
customers, I guess.

In sum: If you're a legal US citizen who pays his/her own money to buy a
plane ticket from an American airline, expect to go hungry until you land

and
then relish the treat of paying $9.00 (as I did at Dallas/Ft. Worth

recently)
for an airport sandwich.

On the other hand, if you're an illegal alien and the US government has
decided to reward you with an all-expenses-paid combined flight/bus trip

back
home to see the follks (and, like the illegal aliens quoted below, even if

you
openly say you're going to sneak back into the USA again in a couple of

weeks)
then you can expect to be able to honestly say to the stewardess serving

your
hot meal, "I'm flying First Class - charge it to Uncle Sam!"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-deport1...,3766248.story

Illegal Immigrants Receive a One-Way Ticket to Mexico
By Chris Kraul
Times Staff Writer

July 13, 2004

MEXICO CITY - The first repatriation flight of Mexicans caught illegally
crossing the Arizona border landed here Monday evening, kicking off a new
deportation program that could return thousands of border crossers deep

into
Mexico.

U.S. officials say using planes to ferry Mexicans home - rather than

dropping
them off at the border - will save lives, keep migrants away from

smugglers
and discourage repeated attempts at sneaking back into the United States.

But 20-year-old Hector Dimas, among the 138 migrants who disembarked from

a
chartered Mexicana Airlines flight, said the program would not quash his

effort
to return to work in the United States.

"I will be going back in 15 days," said Dimas, who has worked in

construction
in Dallas for the last four years. "I need to work. The jobs in Mexico

don't
pay anything."

Seven of eight deportees interviewed in a half-hour period Monday said

they
would recross the border soon.

"I'll try again in a month," said 34-year-old Juan Mora, who was caught on

his
way back to his wife and two children in Richardson, Texas, after visiting
relatives in Mexico. The landscape worker had made four successful

crossings
until this weekend, when he was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Like Mora, the migrants who arrived here Monday had agreed to leave a

federal
detention facility in Tucson and take the free flight home.

Each chartered flight will cost U.S. taxpayers $28,000. As many as 300

migrants
will be returned daily. By Thursday, the repatriation operation will

include
daily flights from Tucson to Guadalajara, as well as to Mexico City.

Migrants
agreeing to participate in the program will be given bus vouchers to take

them
from the airports to their hometown.

U.S. officials have pledged to avoid the use of shackles, restraints and
handcuffs in transporting the migrants. On Monday, the deported migrants

said
they had received a meal of spinach pasta and soft drinks during the

three-hour
flight.

U.S. and Mexican officials say they hope the joint "voluntary

repatriation"
program will reduce the number of migrant deaths in the brutal heat of the
Arizona desert this summer.

Mexican officials reported that 422 people died last year trying to enter

the
United States through California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Arizona

had
the most fatalities. Through June 21, at least 148 Mexicans have died this

year
along the border in the Southwest.

Although they acknowledge that the program might save lives, migrant

advocates
say the U.S. is motivated by more than sympathy. They note that the Border
Patrol recently launched an aggressive campaign to round up illegal

immigrants.

Border Patrol officials say they hope the new repatriation plan, like

several
others over the last decade, will discourage illegal immigration by making

it
more expensive for the deportees.

"One of the main reasons is to drive up the cost of crossing again, to

break
the relationship between the migrants and their polleros, or traffickers,

who
typically include several tries in the prices they quote," said Claudia

Smith
of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, a migrant advocacy

group
based in Oceanside.

"It remains to be seen what percentage of the thousands caught at the

border
each week will opt for a free ride home," said Wayne Cornelius, a

professor and
immigration expert at UC San Diego. "But bus tickets are cheap in Mexico,

and
even from the southern part of the country it should cost only about $100

and
take two or three days for the average migrant to get back to the border.

"Determined, economically motivated migrants will not be deterred from

trying
again until they succeed," Cornelius said.

Critics say previous repatriation programs have failed because they were

costly
and could not be shown to discourage repeat crossings. The United States

has
approved $13 million for the current program to run through September.

Repatriation is a sensitive political issue in Mexico, and U.S. and

Mexican
authorities took months to agree on this program.

Before the migrants boarded the Mexicana flight, they were informed by

Mexican
consular officials in Tucson that the repatriation was voluntary, Mexican
officials said. Because Mexican law guarantees freedom of movement within

its
borders, any forced repatriation would be illegal.

The Foreign Ministry here said in a statement that Mexico and the U.S. had
agreed to the "deep repatriation" plan to "avoid [migrant] deaths and

abuses
committed by human traffickers."

By some estimates, Mexicans account for up to 95% of all illegal crossings

in
the Southwest border region.

In the Border Patrol's Tucson district alone, an average of 2,300 Mexicans

have
been detained every day since March, when enforcement was tightened, a
spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said.

Arizona's lightly patrolled desert has become the favored point of entry

for
migrants and the traffickers who shepherd them since the Border Patrol

made
crossings along the San Diego County border tougher.

But the shift to Arizona carries enormous risks for migrants, especially

during
summer, when desert temperatures exceed 100 degrees.

Migrant advocates say the high death rate among crossers shows they are

willing
to accept those risks.


"If ye love wealth better than liberty ... servitude better than ...

freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms ... May

your
chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget that ye were our

countrymen."
- Samuel Adams



 




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