Trump Administration’s Deportation Drive
US President Donald Trump launched the military deportation flights last week as part of his emergency declaration on immigration, so far sending six planeloads of migrants on flights to Latin America.
As per reports, The Pentagon so far has started providing flights to deport more than 5,000 immigrants from El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California. So far, military aircraft have flown migrants to Guatemala, Peru and Honduras.
“For the first time in history, we are locating and loading illegal aliens into military aircraft and flying them back to the places from which they came,” Trump told reporters last month, as per an NDTV report.