Federal planes fly deportees back over the desert they crossed on foot

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: El Paso Times

CHICAGO - The nondescript 737 jet taxied to the front of the runway line at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Aboard the flight, 53 passengers stared out windows as their rising plane banked toward Mexico and their handcuffs glinted in the morning sun.

This is U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Flight Repatriate, a booming airline ferrying illegal immigrants out of the country.

Flying worldwide from O'Hare and 22 other airports, the so-called ICE Air planes transported more than 367,000 illegal immigrants out of the U.S. between October 2007 and last October - a 26 percent increase over the previous fiscal year and 77 percent more than in 2006.



Read more: http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11694713

[MercutioATC]

1. More humane than making them walk back, I suppose.

:shrug:

[Lost in CT]

3. LOL

Thats exactly what I was thinking....

[Lance_Boyle]

2. those flights should be funded by the employers who hired illegals

rather than by taxpayers. Hire an illegal? Pay for his/her transport back to the country of origin, perhaps in addition to a punitive fine.

[getthefacts]

4. I'd be happier if people like

Joe Arpaio was being shipped out of the country... :)

b]Sheriff Joe Arpaio setting up separate Tent City for illegals

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Tuesday he is creating a new Tent City jail for illegal immigrants and would segregate those detainees behind an electrified fence.

Arpaio said his office will put 200 illegal immigrants in chains Wednesday and march them from existing jail facilities into the segregated tent area at the county jail near 35th Avenue and Durango Road.


http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/02/02/daily31.html

[Buenaventura]

7. http://www.arpaio.com/

sheriff joe's gotta go

[getthefacts]

8. Thanks!

Joined their mailing list.

[Desperadoe]

5. Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)

The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"

My father's own father, he waded that river,
They took all the money he made in his life;
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.

The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, "They are just deportees"

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except "deportees"?

Words by Woody Guthrie and Music by Martin Hoffman
© 1961 (renewed) by TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc.

"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" is a protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie detailing the crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon <2> which in turn is near Coalinga, California in Fresno County, California, United States, on January 29, 1948 and what Guthrie considered the racist mistreatment of the passengers before and after the accident. The crash resulted in the deaths of four Americans and 28 migrant farm workers who were being deported from California back to Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportee_%28Plane_Wreck_at_Los_Gatos%29

[Buenaventura]

6. i had the same thought at nearly the same moment

some things change, some don't.