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Return To Sender: Panama Starts Flying Migrants Home... At US Taxpayer Expense
« on: August 22, 2024, 07:46:13 am »
Return To Sender: Panama Starts Flying Migrants Home... At US Taxpayer Expense

by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Aug 21, 2024 - 04:40 PM

The Republic of Panama on Tuesday initiated a new program by which illegal immigrants transiting the country are flown back to their native nations -- with the cost borne by US taxpayers.

The repatriation flight program is one of multiple avenues by which new Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino is following through on his campaign pledge to end his country's role as a major funnel of illegal immigrants bound for the United States. Last year saw a new record, with more than a half-million migrants crossing the infamous Darien Gap jungle wilderness that spans the Panama-Colombia border region.



Under watch of dozens of National Border Service officers, a shackled Colombian migrant boards a plane at Panama City's Tocumen International Airport (Aris Martinez via Reuters)Tuesday's first repatriation flight was loaded with 29 Colombians, all of whom have criminal records in their home country, with one alleged to be a member of the powerful Clan del Golfo gang, aka the Gaitanistas. Each was caught after they'd made it through the Darien Gap, and were in handcuffs and ankle-irons as they were guided onto an Air Panama plane. Panama's senior migration-management officer, Roger Mojica, told reporters that flights to other destinations are in the works -- including India and Ecuador -- with the next flight happening as soon as Friday.

Critically, the deportation of Venezuelans -- who represent the largest subset of the illegal migrant flow -- could be delayed, thanks to Panama's suspension of diplomacy with Venezuela following July's contested presidential election. Pre-election polls indicated many Venezuelans intended to leave their country if President Nicolas Maduro won. His declared victory is in dispute, and the Biden administration wants him to regime change himself. Supporting Washington's agenda, Panama's Mulino offered Maduro "safe passage" en route to a third country; Maduro warned Mulino not to "mess" with Venezuela.
 

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Re: Return To Sender: Panama Starts Flying Migrants Home... At US Taxpayer Expense
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2024, 07:47:43 am »
Quote from: rangerrebew on August 22, 2024, 07:46:13 am
Flying Migrants Home... At US Taxpayer Expense

I wonder how many were flown in at taxpayer expense? :shrug:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Return To Sender: Panama Starts Flying Migrants Home... At US Taxpayer Expense
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2024, 04:43:43 pm »
"The Republic of Panama on Tuesday initiated a new program by which illegal immigrants transiting the country are flown back to their native nations -- with the cost borne by US taxpayers"

This works for me.

The cost of the plane ticket is a drop in the bucket vis-a-vis the costs the taxpayers would have to endure if the illegals actually reached U.S. soil.

If you stop to think about it... it's a bargain.
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Re: Return To Sender: Panama Starts Flying Migrants Home... At US Taxpayer Expense
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2024, 05:15:20 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on August 22, 2024, 04:43:43 pm
"The Republic of Panama on Tuesday initiated a new program by which illegal immigrants transiting the country are flown back to their native nations -- with the cost borne by US taxpayers"

This works for me.

The cost of the plane ticket is a drop in the bucket vis-a-vis the costs the taxpayers would have to endure if the illegals actually reached U.S. soil.

If you stop to think about it... it's a bargain.


Yes it is!
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