The USAF is mobilizing to begin the mass deportations of the Trump era
U.S. mobilizes at least four military planes to deport 5,000 migrants from the border with Mexico.
At least four military transport planes, two Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and two Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules, were mobilized by the US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) to transport illegal immigrants already in detention.
According to our media partner AEROIN, these deportation flights are scheduled to depart on Thursday, January 23 or Friday, January 24 from El Paso in Texas, on the border with Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, and also from San Diego in California, on the border with the city of Tijuana in the Mexican state of Baja California.
The cargo planes are capable of carrying up to 92 people in the case of the C-130J Super Hercules and 134 in the C-17 Globemaster III in normal conditions, although the latter has more interior space and in exceptional high-density configuration, managed to transport 800 people during the evacuation of U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2021. At least two Globemasters have already been deployed to the country's southern border and are already in the cities of El Paso (Biggs Field military base) and San Diego (international airport) awaiting boarding orders.
According to Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses, the planes will transport 5,000 illegal migrants already held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). It is not yet clear how many flights will be necessary or which countries will be the destinations of the deportees, but Brazil could be on the list, given the number of deportation flights conducted in recent months.
In addition to the mobilization of USAF aircraft, some 1,500 military personnel from the various U.S. armed forces will be deployed to the southern border, “representing a 60 percent increase in active military presence on the ground at the border since President Trump took office on Monday,” said Salesses, who was a Marine Corps officer and was active in the logistics of the liberation of Kuwait, then overrun by neighboring Iraq under Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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