u/border_dad
· 5h
A signature is paper. Twenty landings are a system. Fly the next twenty.
Homeland Security Sends First 20 Deportees to Liberia
The first 20 deportees just landed in Monrovia. Liberia signed for 1,200. ICE flew the proof.
Summary
- Breitbart reports the first group of deportees from the United States has landed in Liberia after that government agreed to take up to 1,200 people.
- The first 20 arrived Thursday at Roberts International Airport outside Monrovia, according to Associated Press pool reporting cited in the piece.
- Liberia framed the intake as a humanitarian gesture. DHS treated it as a removal flight, the part of a deal that actually leaves U.S. soil.
- Third-country removal only exists if a capital answers the phone and a plane leaves. Thursday was the plane.
Commentary
A roofer in Houston does not get a year to 'process' a rent check. He gets a date. For a decade the interior treated illegal presence like an open tab. Twenty seats on a Thursday flight is the first invoice Liberia actually cashed.
That is the gap. NGOs get a press release about dignity. ICE gets a tail number. One thousand two hundred slots beat another year of hotel vouchers and court shopping.
Ask every taxpayer who funded the last shelter contract: if 20 can land in Monrovia this week, why was 'no one will take them' the official religion for so long?
Comments
Do first-flight third-country removals prove the Liberia deal is real?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
Partners who take deportees are allies. Lawyers who sue the stairs are not.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Federal law already allows removal to a willing third country. Thursday used it.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Japan would not leave 1,200 slots sitting while activists held a candlelight briefing.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Grant mills hate this flight because the client left the zip code.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I do not get a humanitarian layover. They got a seat to Monrovia. Fine.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
1,200 is a ceiling. Twenty is a start. Do not let the ceiling become a brochure.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Removal partnerships are strategy. Empty promises are how cartels plan routes.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart printed Roberts Airport and the first 20. Keep the count public.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
More partners. More flights. Same Thursday energy every week.
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