Friday, April 15, 2016

Illegal immigrants are being deported on private jets as taxpayers pay $300k bill | Daily Mail Online

Illegal immigrants are being deported on private jets as taxpayers pay $300k bill | Daily Mail Online: "EXCLUSIVE: Illegal immigrants are being deported on PRIVATE JETS - and taxpayers are on hook for $300,000 every day to fly aliens back to their home countries

  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spent $116m in 2015 to transport illegal immigrants 
  • More than 40% of those who violated their visas were convicted criminals
  • Of those over 1,000 were identified as organized crime or gang members
  • Agency once hired a Boeing 767-300 to take an immigrant back to Nigeria
  • They also hired Gulfstream IV executive jets for so-called 'high-risk charters' on at least 34 occasions
  • Campaigners for taxpayers' rights have said the figures obtained by the Daily Mail Online are 'insane' and an 'outrageous waste of tax dollars' 
  • Mexico is country of origin for biggest number of illegal who are deported"

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