Border detention cells in Texas are so overcrowded that U.S. is using aircraft to move migrants

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Nick Miroff May 11 at 9:29 AM

Overcrowding at Border Patrol stations in South Texas has become so acute in recent days that U.S. authorities have taken the rare step of using aircraft to relocate migrants to other areas of the border simply to begin processing them, according to three Homeland Security officials.

The first flight left McAllen, Tex., on Friday, transferring detainees to Border Patrol facilities in Del Rio, Tex. There are daily flights scheduled for the next several days, with two planned for Tuesday, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the operations.

The flights are conducted by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, but the detainees remain in the custody of Border Patrol, officials said. Though ICE routinely uses aircraft to move detainees among its detention facilities, it is very unusual for Border Patrol to fly recent arrivals from one part of the border to another to perform routine booking procedures.

Homeland Security officials requested the aircraft because Border Patrol urgently needs to move single adults out of the lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The agency is scrambling to make room for the large volume of families and children who have come across the border in dramatically higher numbers in the past several days, officials said.

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[Xipe Totec]

1. I met and spoke to one of these people at the McAllen Airport

She was headed for D.C. for deportation proceedings (I read her documents). She said that the border patrolman asked her if she was seeking asylum and she told him no.

Why - I asked - did you say you were not seeking asylum?

She told me that if she answered yes, she would be put in the detention cells to wait her turn in processing, but that if she declined she would be set free on her own cognizance to travel to D.C. where she has family members, to begin deportation proceedings there. She said there's no way she could tolerate being put in a cold cell with a mylar thermal blanket, sleeping on the floor indefinitely.

I was gobsmacked.

[marylandblue]

3. So Trump's "zero tolerance" is encouraging people to come and gives then free airfare

to a destination of their choice anywhere in the US.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. they have zero choice.

as the article states, they are moved from one holding area to another, in this case far enough away from the initial holding area that they have to be flown.

[marylandblue]

5. I was being facetious based on the previous post.

[underpants]

2. And the Pentagon is moving $1.5 Billion to build the wall

Nice.

[forgotmylogin]

7. Almost as much money as the Billionaren't squandered in ten years. (n/t)

[DENVERPOPS]

6. The major point of this

The major point of this is that there are alot of empty beds in Corporate Owned, For Profit, prisons across the nation.
The ones near the border are filled up. And the United Corporations of America is merely trying to assist the Corporate owned prisons around the country to make more money.....

The Feds pay like 800-900 bucks per prisoner per day. Actually, we the tax payers foot the bill.

Perhaps they should round them all up, and make them all march on foot a thousand miles to a worthless piece of land in Oklahoma....LOL.......They could call it "The Trail of Fears"........If a thousand or more died along the trail, so what.....

These immigrant hating despicable assholes seem to forget that the largest Genocide ever committed in the world was the Europeans immigrants (these asshole's relatives) coming to North America and willfully murdering the Native American Population and stealing all their land for themselves.

By the way,......A good read on corporations is Kurt Vonnegut's JAILBIRD, I think about this and wonder if Trump and Repubs will get to the point of having their own "RAMJACK" corporation.......

[2naSalit]

8. Sooo

I wonder how many will end up landing at Guantanamo. And whether there will be shipments of children to be sold at various market cities... perhaps not in the US. Once they get on the plane, who knows for sure?