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Based on the entry describing how a U.S. flight carrying undocumented immigrants had to be canceled because no Mexico airport would allow it to land, isn’t the scenario developing that Mexico, and every Central American and South American country that does not want undocumented U.S. migrants sent back to them, will simply deny landing rights for any such flights?

It’s tough to deport when there are no available flight destinations. This was the logic offered to explain why a number of Guantánamo “detainees” (prisoners) could not be repatriated, since no country would accept them.

So, maybe ICE will have to buy a commercial airline ticket for each undocumented immigrant? But that would require an ID sufficient to pass airport security. Oops. Issue them U.S. passports good for 72-hours?

Or maybe the U.S. will have to create a league of anti-coyotes, to carry undocumented migrants from the U..S. back across the border into Mexico, in a mirror image of how these migrants arrived here. If this sounds like a good idea to Trump, he will order the military to do it, and Hegseth will comply. Or maybe Trump will order a fleet of small submarines to be built, to ferry undocumented workers to remote stretches of Baja coast. (The cartels tried out this idea - submarines.) Some Coast Guard Trump loyalist would love it. It’s not as crazy as you might think. Not with this crew in charge. No idiocy is off the table.

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He has the perfectly incompetent yes man in Hegseth to assist him.

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Skye Perryman reports that "Democracy 2025" has organized a "Response Center" that has contact information for "legal support"; "real time analysis" of the autocracy regime's "orders" (not) and other "resources".

Fight Back!

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