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.”
If they’re spending all that money and effort to transport illegals, why not transport them DEEP into Mexico—to Veracruz for example?
Their seeding the country....Been going on for decades now...
“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.”
Just wait until these “children” apply to bring their parents here to live with them.
I just hope that the welfare load breaks Massoftwoshits. It will serve them right.
>>I’m concerned this could backfire bigtime on Obama and any democrats supporting it. First of all it reminds me of what was done to the Japanese. Secondly, if deaths from desease begin to occur among the children it could become an even bigger problem for Obammy. <<
So? I hope this explodes in Obama’s face and blows his ass out of the WH!
I don’t see Obama leaving the WH in 2016 unless Michelle O is the next President. He’ll use his “pen and phone” if i takes that to remain in the WH.
I would not support if they were new Tea Party voters. Wrong is wrong. It's true what you say but is not how we win the illegal immigration debate.
What McCain, Bush, Obama have been supporting is inhumane and that's how we win the debate. Legalized Slavery, that's what it is. Now with these kids... it's even worse and not something that any humane person could support. They need to be back home with their family (uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters).
Before they go back, get the names of the people they are suppose to meet up with on this side of the border and charge them with child endangerment (even if its the parent).
Politics aside, wrong is wrong and this is wrong.
Shame Obama and the dems for their support for inhumane activities. This is a war on latino youths if I've ever seen one.
And just what do you expect the American public to do when he say, “I am now your dictator and I am not leaving 1600?”
Probably threaten to "sue him".
No, the people aren’t elected legislators. I expect they’ll kill him.
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