A U.S. Air Force jet with migrants bound at their wrists and ankles departed Texas for Guatemala on Thursday, carrying 80 deportees in another deportation flight that reflects a growing role for the armed forces in helping enforce immigration laws.
A group of about 80 Guatemalan migrants were deported from the U.S. today as part of the repatriation flights conducted by the Trump Administration. Members of U.S. Border Patrol and the Department of Defense are conducting these operations.
A U.S. Air Force jet with migrants bound at their wrists and ankles departed Texas for Guatemala on Thursday, carrying 80 deportees in another deportation flight that reflects a growing role for the armed forces in helping enforce immigration laws.
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Two military jets landed in Guatemala City on Friday carrying deported migrants from Tucson, Ariz., and El Paso, according to local migration authorities and the American Embassy in Guatemala.
The first such military flight out of El Paso, Texas, took place, bound for Guatemala with approximately 80 immigrants on board.
A US Air Force jet carrying 80 deportees from Texas to Guatemala avoided Mexican airspace, highlighting military's increasing role in immigration enforcement.
U.S. President Donald Trump's military deportation flight to Guatemala on Monday likely cost at least $4,675 per migrant, according to data provided by U.S. and Guatemalan officials.
The U.S. government has begun utilizing military aircraft to deport migrants, with the first flights departing from Biggs Army Air Field to Guatemala on Thursda
A U.S. Air Force jet with migrants bound at their wrists and ankles departed Texas for Guatemala on Thursday, carrying 80 deportees in another deportation flight that reflects a growing role for the armed forces in helping enforce immigration laws. (AP video shot by: Luis Torres_
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