McClatchy Newspapers
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.
Posted by tyne at October 24, 2006