ICE Air

From the tone of the blog post, I know I'm supposed to be outraged, but I'm not feeling it. [Link]

We have Con Air for inmates and Ghost Air for detainees and now there's ICE Air. Tonight, Nightline examines ICE Air, the airline that deports the undocumented:

ICE has 22 detention facilities all over the country. When illegal immigrants are caught, they're flown to one of three hubs in Texas, Arizona or Louisiana. From there, ICE Air has daily flights to Central American countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and also frequent flights to Nicaragua, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and the Caribbean. When it gets enough immigrants to fill a plane, it also flies to Asia, eastern Europe and Africa. ICE Air leases nine planes, and sometimes it also charters commercial jets. It flies six days a week.

Business is brisk. [More...]

Good. I am all for legal immigration, but those who came here illegally should go home to their home countries where they are citizens.

I am always annoyed by this:

I wish Nightline would not call the immigrants "illegal aliens." They are undocumented residents. No human being is illegal. Tune in and see if they sugar-coat the story in favor of ICE. The article reads like a ringing endorsement of the program.

"Illegal alien" is the correct terminology. A non citizen of a country is an alien and they are not here legally as a resident alien or naturalized citizen, so they are therefore here illegally, hence illegal alien.

I do think we need to open up immigration to those who are not just skilled labor, but those who will just work hard and pay taxes, like our parents and grandparents did when they came here.