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Illegal immigrants flown to Bay State: Sheriffs warn move may threaten safety
The Boston Herald ^ | July 13, 2014 | Owen Boss and Joe Dwinell

Posted on 07/13/2014 1:34:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Illegal immigrants are being secretly flown to Massachusetts and kept in local lockups in an under-the-radar operation that has alarmed lawmen who are raising health and security concerns amid recent spikes in detainees coming up from Texas during the latest border crisis.

“We’re all becoming border sheriffs now with these people being carted all over the country,” said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson.

“The blame goes all the way up. It’s a travesty and people ought to be upset,” Hodgson said. “This is un-American and has raised the stakes to the public health and public safety threat.”

Hodgson said buses from his facility were recently used to transport six planeloads of illegals sent up from San Antonio to Hanscom Field in Bedford en route to the Plymouth County 
Correctional Facility.

The sheriff said he’s also heard of 100 immigrant children recently arriving in his county. But he couldn’t say if they are part of the deluge of 50,000 unaccompanied kids crossing the nation’s southern border.

On the receiving end of the buses from Hodgson’s facility was Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph D. McDonald Jr., who said he’s seen a jump in illegal immigrants arriving at his jail and had to deal with “scenarios where we’ve had 100-plus detainees coming in at the same time.”

Hodgson called for sheriffs across the United States to “mobilize” on the red-hot immigration issue and confront the feds over their failure to communicate with local officials.

He said he’s heading to the Texas border Tuesday with other sheriffs from around the country to meet with ranchers and immigration officials to address the porous border crisis.

After weeks of denying an increase in flights to the Bay State, federal immigration officials finally admitted this weekend that four planes filled with detainees captured at the southern border have been flown to Hanscom and Logan International Airport since April as part of a “large-scale nationwide response” to the crisis.

Three other flights chartered by ICE since then have stopped in Massachusetts to pick up illegals and deport them, Daniel Modricker, an ICE spokesman said. A small percentage were granted asylum in Massachusetts, he added.

Modricker declined to comment on Hodgson’s report of other flights of illegals into Hanscom.

News of the covert flights comes as President Obama battles congressional Republicans over his request for nearly 
$4 billion to deal with the flood of kids as well as 30,000 illegal immigrants who crossed the border in recent weeks.

Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, who first reported the secret flights in June after hearing that two planeloads of detainees had quietly landed at Hanscom and Logan, said last night she wasn’t surprised when officials originally lined up to deny her story.

“This administration isn’t forthcoming about anything,” said Malkin, whose columns appear in the Herald. “This isn’t just a border crisis. It’s becoming a nationwide problem.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; dreamers; immigration; massachusetts; obamabringsdeath; scabies4all; swineflu4all; tuberculosis4all
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To: Texas Eagle

Not if they’re in Kaliforniyaaa,, drought and all

If ya get one shower a month, ya’ll be lucky..

Like most libs would notice the difference,,nhaaa.


21 posted on 07/13/2014 2:29:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Mears

““Should send some to Martha’s Vineyard so that the billionaires who want them here can enjoy them.”

And since the Hamptons are just a hop, skip and and jump across Long Island Sound, why not drop a planeload or five over there while they are at it.


22 posted on 07/13/2014 2:29:48 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: NormsRevenge
The problem here in "Caliph"ornia is not so much the drought as it is our Commie politicians tearing down our dams and shutting off the water to our farms and orchards.

But, strangely enough, not to the golf courses. At least not the ones Ubama plays when he's here.

23 posted on 07/13/2014 2:34:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: vette6387

I guess their older undocumented workers are too old to wash the car, clean the house, and perform those other jobs no one else wants to do....these are the replacements evidently.


24 posted on 07/13/2014 2:34:18 PM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...get off your cowardly a$ses and be A PATRIOT now!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Illegal immigrants flown to Bay State: Sheriffs warn move may WILL threaten safety.

There, fixed it.

25 posted on 07/13/2014 2:48:19 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Send them to Chappysquiddick!


26 posted on 07/13/2014 2:49:04 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will someone please wake up the f##kers who are suppose to be representing us


27 posted on 07/13/2014 2:54:52 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bttt


28 posted on 07/13/2014 2:55:54 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: timestax
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29 posted on 07/13/2014 2:56:56 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Feds cannot force you Sheriffs to do a damn thing for them, neither are the
STATES under any circumstance forced to accept this madness.

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU DAMN PEOPLE!!

30 posted on 07/13/2014 3:03:29 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Bay State is where they belong, where liberal compassion runs a mile deep in every nook and cranny.


31 posted on 07/13/2014 3:08:13 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: RWGinger
"I missed that part in the article. did it say the sheriff sent buses to take the illegals?"

See excerpt below:

"Hodgson said buses from his facility were recently used to transport six planeloads of illegals sent up from San Antonio to Hanscom Field in Bedford en route to the Plymouth County 
Correctional Facility."

32 posted on 07/13/2014 3:10:46 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29

Thank you
I hope people in all the other states wake up.
It looks like that POS BO is sending a few hundred here and a few hundred there so people don’t notice.
This is not just Texas’ problem as most of the illegals getting “ detained ‘ now are not staying in Texas.
The question is can we the people actually do anything to stop this.


33 posted on 07/13/2014 3:14:43 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let's send 100 future 'Rats to every zip code. That should do the trick!


34 posted on 07/13/2014 3:15:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MaxMax
Feds cannot force you Sheriffs to do a damn thing for them, neither are the STATES under any circumstance forced to accept this madness.

But...., you have to do the bidding of those who provide you with MRAPs and other toys for free!!!

35 posted on 07/13/2014 3:15:43 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Around here the Sheriff runs the jail. He’d be well within his authority to say “no” loudly and often.


36 posted on 07/13/2014 3:16:43 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Texas Eagle
New 'Rat voters are coming in. (You paid for them to come.)

Old white "bitter clingers" will use the same process in reverse, heading to a one-way "resort" in the SW deserts.

Think I'm joking?


37 posted on 07/13/2014 3:18:19 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RWGinger

What’s done is done. Obama ramped up this conspiracy. No one will be deported.

The only thing which can be done is if some governor has the balls to do it.


38 posted on 07/13/2014 3:18:43 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Open Borders, pro-terrorist, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Travis McGee
Think I'm joking?

Nope.

39 posted on 07/13/2014 3:26:38 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blame the Commie pink fag that occupies the WH.


40 posted on 07/13/2014 3:28:08 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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