Cool: Florida Is Buying Airplane Tickets For Illegals To Self-Deport

The NY Times thinks they have something her, that this is Bad, but, really, this is awesome

Florida Is Buying Plane Tickets for Unauthorized Immigrants to Self-Deport

Florida has started to pay for plane tickets for certain unauthorized immigrants to self-deport, officials said this week, in what appears to be the first such program run in part by a state.

Unauthorized immigrants who are in custody and have no prior felony convictions may be offered direct commercial flights to return to their home countries as part of the program, which is a collaboration between the Florida Highway Patrol and the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami sector.

The program is underway in law enforcement stations in West Palm Beach and Dania Beach, south of Fort Lauderdale, Madison Kessler, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, said in a statement. The Border Patrol also confirmed in that the program is in effect.

On Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said that unauthorized immigrants could avoid being taken to the state-run detention center in the Florida Everglades named “Alligator Alcatraz” if they chose to self-deport. “We do have options for you to short-circuit that whole process if you’re here illegally,” he said.

This obviously has made the pro-illegal alien crowd upset

Nayna Gupta, the policy director for the American Immigration Council in Washington, said that Florida’s “coercive offer of money to a flight to safety” so as to avoid the harsh conditions reported at the Everglades detention center might be pushing noncitizens “to give up their fundamental, constitutional, Fifth Amendment right to due process.”

If all they did was enter illegally, well, as the Dems like to say, it’s just a civil offense, hence, no need for a lawyer or anything. The penalty per law is a small fine and deportation.

“There is no clear authority for the State of Florida to interfere in federal immigration enforcement in this manner,” she said.

Same people say it’s perfectly OK for state, county, and local governments to help illegals avoid federal law enforcement and federal laws.

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