An increasing number of Americans are complaining about migrants being included in their domestic flights across the country.
Conservative commentator and BPR contributor, Ashley St. Clair encountered a group of migrants boarding her Delta flight at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
“My Delta flight from Phoenix appears to be flying migrants who crossed the border and are being shipped to New York. When I asked a Delta representative if this was the case, his response was ‘What does it matter, they’re humans too.’ What is happening???? Are taxpayer dollars paying for this????” she tweeted that afternoon.
The tweet included video footage of the suspected migrants.
Watch:
My @Delta flight from Phoenix appears to be flying migrants who crossed the border and are being shipped to New York
When I asked a Delta representative if this was the case, his response was “What does it matter, they’re humans too”
What is happening???? pic.twitter.com/zew340d6u2
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) December 19, 2023
In an additional tweet posted a couple hours later, she noted that “hundreds” of people had reached out to her complaining about the same thing occurring on their flights.
“Since the video of my Delta flight I posted … I have received hundreds of messages of people who have experienced similar things. This has been happening for far longer than we realize. I hope more people document this when come across it. Please be calm, respectful, and send me any footage you get. Avoid confrontation at all costs,” she explained.
Since the video of my Delta flight I posted last night, I have received hundreds of messages of people who have experienced similar things
This has been happening for far longer than we realize. I hope more people document this when come across it. Please be calm, respectful,…
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) December 19, 2023
St. Clair recorded her video just a day after Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an executive order deploying the state’s National Guard to the southern border to help deal with the “unmitigated humanitarian crisis” taking over her state.
In a statement, Hobbs slammed the Biden administration over its lack of assistance in the matter.
“Yet again, the federal government is refusing to do its job to secure our border and keep our communities safe,” she said.
“With this Executive Order, I am taking action where the federal government won’t. But we can’t stand alone, Arizona needs resources and manpower to reopen the Lukeville crossing, manage the flow of migrants, and maintain a secure, orderly and humane border. Despite continued requests for assistance, the Biden administration has refused to deliver desperately needed resources to Arizona’s border,” she added.
Dovetailing back to what happened to St. Clair, numerous additional examples have emerged in the hours since.
Case in point:
I was also on a flight home from PHX recently and there were a lot of migrants with cell phones and brand new clothes, papers, nothing else on my same plane. Very strange.
— Jon (@Patriotic_Jon) December 19, 2023
@AmericanAir is doing this as well. It happened on my flight from PHX last week. Almost half the plane was migrants. No actual luggage just back packs or bags. And yellow envelopes.
— Crossfire333 (@Crossfire3332) December 19, 2023
I was just on an American flight and all but two seats in First Class were migrants with their children. So my money was paying for them to sit there while I took my seat in coach. Unacceptable.
— Erica Joyce (@theericajoyce) December 20, 2023
Bunch of adult male, mostly African “migrants” on my flight from PHX to DCA.
The smell is overpowering.
They will give them an airline ticket to your town but not a bath.
— Matt Braynard (@MattBraynard) December 19, 2023
This has been going on for 5+ years. I was visiting family in Tucson on my way home. We saw a long line of migrants with a DHS worker. All migrants had the same cheap over night bag in a long line walking up to an @AmericanAir flight.
It’s human trafficking and disgusting.
— Will Shaw (@willshawison) December 19, 2023
I was also on a flight recently with about twenty migrants. Obviously their first time on a plane. I was asked to move from my aisle seat (which I paid $80 for) to accomodate a minor and their parent. I was crammed into the middle seat, last row. No refund was given.
— Mmmm Whataburger (@MmmmWhataburger) December 19, 2023
Responding to this outpouring of similar stories, one commentator, Tim Pool, suggested that conservatives show give Delta, as well as other airlines caught transporting migrants, the “Bud Light treatment.”
“The big move right now is to get people to cancel and boycott Delta and to give Delta the ‘Bud Light treatment,’ because Delta is apparently receiving funding from somewhere to cover the costs and to facilitate human trafficking. Delta Airlines appears to be human trafficking, and the question now is ‘who’s paying for it,'” he said.
Listen:
Tim Pool calls for Delta to get the “Bud Light treatment”
@Timcast pic.twitter.com/ngaoUdlMOe
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) December 20, 2023
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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