06-20-2018, 03:56 PM
(06-20-2018, 03:39 PM)Duchess Wrote:(06-20-2018, 01:03 PM)Duchess Wrote:
American Airlines has just told the United States government to "immediately refrain" from using them to transport migrant children. Good for them. I hope more follow suit. These kids are being flown all over America.
...and now United & Frontier have joined them.
Hopefully, fewer migrant children will get lost to their parents in the system as a result, and it will put more immediate pressure on the government to reunify families. Hopefully.
Nielsen's spokesperson has already issued a press release criticizing the airlines.
DHS press secretary Tyler Houlton issued a statement saying it's "unfortunate" that the three airlines "no longer want to partner with the brave men and women of DHS to protect the traveling public," claiming that the carriers are "buckling to a false media narrative." "Despite being provided facts on this issue, these airlines clearly do not understand our immigration laws and the long-standing devastating loopholes that have caused the crisis at our southern border," Houlton said. http://thehill.com/policy/transportation...-on-family
Well, if the airlines don't understand the immigration laws, that may be because the administration has been consistently inconsistent and dishonest about the impacts and processes surrounding the new Zero Tolerance policy.
However, I suspect the airlines do understand that children were taken from their parents and are being dispersed to different locales without any known process or tracking mechanism to ensure they're reunified with their families.