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Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights
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Last I checked, planes not run by the Air Force flew to pretty much every country on the planet. Also, there are boats. And if we're talking the Americas, cars and trucks.
And if they have served their time, why do they need to be deported in a military plane?
Do we deport criminals housed in prisons for being dangerous people using commercial carriers?
They are being permanently exiled for their crimes why would ypu compromise that by letting them wander free?
I see. You think we should continue to treat former prisoners like prisoners even though they've served their sentence.
How very American of you.
If we are exiling someone for violent crimes why would they be free to roam the nation? You do not have the right to live anywhere other than the nation you have citizenship in. That isn't "American" of me as that is the law in all nations.
What are you even talking about now? You said they should be deported after serving their sentence. I'm saying if they've already served their sentence, why do they need to be treated like a dangerous criminal and deport them on an Air Force plane? Put them on a United flight to wherever. If they're such a risk on a plane, have a sky marshal sit next to them on the flight. They're allowed to be armed and they don't have to wear anything that identifies them. What is this cartel member going to do?
They transport prisoners still serving sentences domestically that way sometimes. They don't use the Air Force because it's one guy on a plane and that's silly.
Because if they are being exiled never to return to the USA you deport them through non-commercial means because they aren't free to interact with society. They do not have the right to wander the nation as non-citizens forbidden from being in the USA.
It is not the job of commercial flight crews to be involved in the legal deportation of violent criminals forbidden to access any part of the country. If the criminal decides to violate the agreement to leave the flight crew has zero recourse to stop them. The air marshal is a single guy on a plane. You are mistaken if you think the USAF is putting these deportees under the eye of a single guy.
Finally by placing them on government planes rather than commercial planes the government can be assured the criminal's nation can take them into custody when appropriate.
What could they possibly do on a commercial airliner that other prisoners that get transported on commercial airliners can't do?
Again, this happens domestically all the time.
Are these people extra special dangerous because they're foreign?
Edit: Also this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Prisoner_and_Alien_Transportation_System