'So little planning': Experts mock Trump after Mexico refuses to let deportation flight land



For years, Mexico has allowed the United States' deportation flights to cross over its airspace when flying undocumented immigrants back to their home countries without incident. But that's apparently no longer the case, according to a new report.

On Friday, NBC News found that Mexico refused a U.S. military plane access to its airspace when flying migrants to Guatemala. And as American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick noted, another Central American country appears to have also not allowed the United States to fly over its airspace, given the flight's unusually circuitous route.

"This deportation flight had to go all the way around the Yucatan first, and then it went through Costa Rica, suggesting Honduras may also have denied permission," Reichlin-Melnick posted to Bluesky. He observed that countries declining to accommodate the U.S. by granting it access to its airspace could be a result of them perceiving his use of military C-130 planes "as an insult."

READ MORE: 'Quickly get into problems': These 3 obstacles could slow down Trump's mass deportations

As Virginia Commonwealth University associate political science professor Michael Paarlberg wrote on Bluesky, carrying out deportations requires both the country deporting migrants and the country accepting them to coordinate. And as the Washington Post reported in December, countries refusing to cooperate with Trump could throw a wrench in the gears of his mass deportation plans.

"It should be obvious, but doesn’t seem widely understood that the US can’t unilaterally deport people," Paarlberg explained. "This gives those countries a degree of leverage over the US if they simply refuse, as Mexico just did."

Author Jeff Pearlman worried that Trump's actions could "start a war" with either one of the United States' neighboring countries. And Moderna engineer Kenneth Trease predicted that should Trump fail to obtain the cooperation of migrants' countries of origin, it could lead to myriad issues down the road for both the Trump administration and the migrants themselves.

"Nonzero chance they did so little planning that they can't handle the scenario of 'what if Mexico won't let the planes land' and they don't have any backup plan for housing the deportees and they just wind up either in regular prison or eventually released to the street," Trease wrote.

READ MORE: Trump team pushing 'utter propaganda' to create 'climate of fear': experts

In a thread posted to X, Maryville College history professor Aaron Astor explained that Mexico refusing the deportation flight could be the start of greater tension between the U.S. and its neighbor to the south. Astor emphasized that he wasn't sure if the refusal was "kabuki theater" and "negotiation over terms of a new 'Remain in Mexico' plan" or "the beginning of something much more serious" that could have "huge economic consequences on both sides."

"What Mexico just did might be a minor tussle, part of a negotiation that results in a smoother new arrangement," Astor tweeted. "But we should keep an eye on how this unfolds."

Trump's first deportation flight to Belo Horizonte in Brazil landed earlier this week, according to a local Brazilian news source. That flight carried 88 Brazilian migrants and an untold number of migrants from other countries. Both Bazil and the United States have had an agreement in place on deportations since 2017.

Click here to read NBC News' report in full.

READ MORE: 'Going to pay a lot more': Here's how Trump's deportations will lead to huge tax increases



from Alternet.org https://ift.tt/HRDo4MJ
via sinceretalk

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

PA GOP Senate candidate who says he 'started with nothing' actually grew up in a mansion

Image
David McCormick, who is Pennsylvania's presumptive Republican U.S. Senate nominee, has often suggested he grew up poor in a rural community. But a new report finds that his upbringing was far more affluent than he's suggested. The New York Times reported Friday that McCormick — a former hedge fund executive who lived in Connecticut as recently as 2022 — has been cagey with voters about his childhood. McCormick has tweeted that he was "raised in Bloomsburg working on his family's farm," said on a 2022 podcast that he " started with nothing " and told CBS News that same year that he " didn't have anything " growing up as the son of two schoolteachers. But according to the Times , McCormick's father, Dr. James H. McCormick , was appointed president of what is now Bloomsburg University by Gov. Milton Schapp (D) in 1973. He moved his family into Buckalew Place — the official mansion for presidents of the school that currently spans 5...
Read more

'Uniquely egregious': Judge orders newspaper to delete editorial criticizing government

Image
Without even conducting a hearing, a Mississippi judge ordered a local newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing local officials over a lack of transparency. The Independent reported Wednesday that the Clarksdale Press-Register in Clarksdale, Mississippi has since deleted the editorial in question following an order handed down by Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Crystal Wise Martin. The editorial called out municipal leaders in Clarksdale for not properly notifying the public about a hearing on proposed tax increases. Judge Martin's order accused the paper of "reckless disregard of the truth," and asserted that the editorial disrupts the local government's "legitimate function to advocate for legislation they believe would help their municipality during this current legislative cycle." "The notice was posted at city hall as required by law and said stated the city would 'give appropriate notice thereof to the media,'" the editori...
Read more

Trump was hit by glass fragments — not a bullet: report

Image
Law enforcement officials have claimed to two different sources that former President Donald Trump was not grazed by a bullet but rather by glass shards. The officials in question told both Newsmax's Alex Salvi and Axios' Juliegrace Brufke that Trump was hit by glass shards that may have erupted from the shattering of a teleprompter that was hit by gunfire. Earlier on Saturday, law enforcement sources confirmed that the person suspected of firing a weapon at a Pennsylvania Trump rally had been killed, as had at least one person in the crowd. Videos showed Trump grabbing his neck after apparent gunshots had been fired before Secret Service agents pulled him to the ground. They then took him away in an armored vehicle to a hospital where he was treated for injuries. The identity of the shooting suspect has not yet been released. from Alternet.org https://ift.tt/ILgqr53 via sinceretalk
Read more