butterbean
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:16 am Post subject: # of Illegal Immigrants on Prisoner Flights Jumps |
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WASHINGTON - Con Air is becoming big business, thanks to illegal immigrants and criminal aliens.
And this is one flight you definitely want to miss.
Federal officials flew 95,876 incarcerated illegal immigrants and criminal aliens around the country in 2005, a 28 percent increase since 2000. Those foreign nationals now account for nearly half of all the passengers flown on the highly guarded federal flights, a new audit found, and tougher border security efforts will boost numbers even higher.
Unfortunately, the auditors warn, the flights could outpace federal planning. Officials haven't been looking far enough into the future, leaving the program vulnerable to nasty surprises.
"(Officials) could be caught off-guard by changes in demand and customers," the Justice Department Office of Inspector General auditors caution in the new report.
Popularized as "Con Air" in a Hollywood movie of the same name, the prisoner flights are coordinated by the U.S. Marshals Service through a Kansas City, Mo., office, and carried a total of 181,948 prisoners in 2005.
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