A aircraft stuffed with migrants was unloaded and dispersed to numerous areas within the New York Metropolis space Friday evening below cowl of darkness, the most recent in a sequence of clandestine flights licensed by the White Home.
The flights resumed earlier this month after a Put up exposé led to their suspension final yr.
On Friday, the Put up watched as a bunch of migrants disembarked from an iAero Airways flight from Jacksonville, Fla. that landed at Westchester County Airport at 9:48 p.m.
The passengers have been positioned on two white constitution buses from J&F Excursions. The Put up adopted one of many buses because it drove to locations within the Bronx and Yonkers.
On the first cease in Yonkers, one of many migrants entered what seemed like a sprawling dorm complicated close to the grounds of Sisters of Charity, a Catholic help middle.
The bus then drove to the Bronx, dropping off three girls at an condominium constructing on Kingsbridge Avenue. A gaggle of 5 males, milling round on a close-by avenue nook, gave the bus a thumbs up because it approached the constructing.
At every cease, three staff holding folders escorted the migrants into their new house. They returned to the bus about 5 minutes later.
On Crotona Avenue within the Bronx, a teenage migrant obtained off the bus with baggage.
“I’ve to actually go,” mentioned one of many handlers when approached by a Put up reporter. “We’re behind. We’re delayed.”
The person, who refused to provide his identify, mentioned he works for MVM Inc., a controversial Virginia-based personal safety contractor that works for the US authorities. The agency labored for the CIA and the NSA in Iraq, and final yr signed a $136 million contract with the federal authorities to move unlawful migrants and unaccompanied youngsters across the nation. The contractor sends out “chaperones” to escort the migrants as soon as they get off the flights.
The final cease occurred simply earlier than 2 a.m. Saturday, with a drop off of an adolescent at Catholic Guardian Service, an help group, on Taylor Avenue in Soundview. He dragged his baggage into the constructing.
