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Desperate Migrants: Over 100 Refugees Living At Boston Airport Baggage Claim With No Place To Go

by Gary Leff on June 12, 2024

Jun 12 2024

More than a hundred migrants are now living at Boston Logan Airport baggage claim, creating a makeshift community using limited blankets as mattresses. The baggage claim refugee camp began earlier this year but has grown with migrants arriving at “at all hours.”

Migrants are transported to state welcome centers each day, but then brought back to the airport by nightfall since state shelters are at capacity – to live in a cold environ with hard floors, bright lights and loud announcements.

Immigration Officer Caught On Camera, Faces 20 Years for Up-Skirt Video of American Airlines Attendant

by Gary Leff on May 27, 2024

May 27 2024

A U.S. immigration officer is facing prison after being convicted of taking up-skirt video of a flight attendant last year while on duty escorting a passenger bound for deportation.

The man faces a maximum sentence of 20 years for interfering with flight crew enroute from Dallas – Fort Worth to Miami on November 6, 2023

Airlines Are Being Pressured To Deny Boarding To Pregnant Women Coming To The U.S.

by Gary Leff on May 15, 2024

May 15 2024

Airlines don’t want you to give birth on the plane, so they have special policies for pregnant women approaching their due date. It’s common, for instance, to require a doctor’s note for travel within four weeks of the woman’s due date stating that she’s fit to fly. However immigration attorney Brad Bernstein says that airlines have been told not to allow non-resident women who are “heavily pregnant” to fly to the United States because there’s a risk they’ll give birth here. It’s legal for a foreign woman to give birth in the United States If she’s coming here for the purpose of giving birth that’s illegal However the child still becomes a citizen, and allows for priority in their eventually sponsoring relatives to come to the U.S. as well. Enilria is not surprised, noting that…

Six-Hour Immigration Lines at Miami Airport As Passengers Miss Connecting Flights, A Crisis for Both Citizens and Visitors

by Gary Leff on April 21, 2024

Apr 21 2024

Passengers arriving into the country at Miami International Airport faced immigration lines stretching up to six hours long on Saturday evening. Video shows the line just to get into the immigration hall.

The Truth Behind Migrants Flying Out of Southern Border Airports: What You Need to Know

by Gary Leff on March 3, 2024

Mar 03 2024

Is American Airlines bumping paying passengers so that they can fly migrants out of southern border airports? That’s the claim being made across some sectors of the media. It takes one element of truth – that the number of migrants on planes out of a handful of airports has become substantial – and mixed it with an odd anecdote about a man who may have checked in late for his American Airlines flight and lost his seat.

British Airways Manager On The Run In India After $3.8 Million Asylum Scam Exposed

by Gary Leff on February 27, 2024

Feb 27 2024

A British Airways manager has reportedly fled to India following allegations that he orchestrated a $3.8 million immigration fraud, leveraging the airline’s check-in systems to facilitate illegal travel and allowing passengers to claim asylum in Canada when they weren’t eligible to fly there in the first place.

The Time I Bribed A U.S. Border Officer And Brought Someone Into The Country Legally

by Gary Leff on February 18, 2024

Feb 18 2024

When I was a junior in high school the state finals of debate were at San Diego State University. My team went down to San Diego the night before, and a group of us – mostly 16 years old at the time – decided we might as well go to Tijuana.

Back then you didn’t have to carry a passport to enter Mexico, or return to the U.S. For a land border crossing a drivers license was sufficient.

Up To 1 In 5 Passengers Flying Out Of Airports At The Border Are Migrants

by Gary Leff on January 19, 2024

Jan 19 2024

Currently up to one in five passengers flying out of airports near the U.S. southern border appear to be migrants. Based on the difference between arrivals and departures each month from specific airports, people are leaving and not coming back.

Caught in the Crossfire: How Delta Air Lines Became The Center Of A Political Storm Over Immigration

by Gary Leff on December 19, 2023

Dec 19 2023

Some anti-immigration Republicans are now calling for a boycott of Delta Air Lines after a commentator filmed the carrier flying migrants from Phoenix to New York.

Normally the complaint is that undocumented immigrants crossing into border states like Arizona and Texas overburdens those states and so they want them moved to New York (or Martha’s Vineyard)?

We Should Allow More People To Come To The U.S. And Stay Here

by Gary Leff on July 3, 2023

Jul 03 2023

The U.S. is losing millions of visitors due to absurd wait times for visas. Last year we saw them get 14 times longer than they were before the pandemic, in some cases nearly three years. Make make it difficult for talented people to come here for work, too, and after a short time we… kick them out.

And we don’t do a great job even figuring out who ‘we’ ‘want’ here in the first place.