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Date Posted: 16:43:07 08/18/08 Mon
Author: jmr
Subject: Flying for free....


The governments of the homeland where these illegal's came from should have to foot the bill for this. I wonder how many has returned back to the U.S.?

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080817/NEWS01/808170308/1004/NEWS01

Jets fly illegal aliens home
U.S. government runs an airline for inmates, illegal immigrants
Its flights go to more than 40 U.S. and international cities

Hundreds of thousands have flown on its jets since 1995, which come with meal service. And in thousands of flights since 2000, there have been only two accidents, with no passenger injuries.

But you can't buy a ticket.

The only passengers on the sleek, white jets are prisoners or illegal immigrants going home.

The airline -- run by the federal government -- is one of the ways illegal immigrants caught in South Carolina are returned to their homelands.

With a push to deport more illegal immigrants, the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System airline, which Hollywood moviemakers made famous in the 1997 film "Con Air," expects to be busy for years to come.

A record 276,912 illegals were removed from the United States in fiscal year 2007, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Officials estimate passengers aboard JPATS flights will swell to 267,000 this year, up from 162,000 in 2002.

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