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Published June 2, 2021
The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
Knoxville, TN – On Thursday night, a plane carrying unidentified children landed in Knoxville. According to flight records, the plane came from Long Beach, California before landing at McGhee Tyson Airport at the TacAir shortly after 11 p.m.
Video captured by WVLT News shows people leaving the plane to board two buses at TacAir.
According to WVLT, “The video appeared to show primarily pre-teen and teenage children. WVLT News blurred the faces of the individuals to protect the identities of anyone on the plane.”
One bus drove down I-75 to cross the Kentucky border, and the second bus went south on Alcoa Highway. WVLT said they have tried to make several calls about the situation.
They said, “The Malone Bus Company based in Cleveland, Tennessee, hung up when asked questions about why its buses were being used. Later calls to the company were then sent straight to voicemail. The Malone Bus Company was the same company that was hired to transport migrants last week from Chattanooga.”
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A spokesperson from McGhee Tyson Airport said TacAir works with private aircraft, so the airport had no information about the plane. Officials from the airline also said they could not make any comments due to their policy.
Casey Black, the Press Secretary for Governor Bill Lee, said the governor did not know about the flight.
The governor’s office told WVLT, “We have made numerous requests for information and transparency from the Biden Administration since March they have not responded to those requests. Everything we have learned has come from news reports like yours.”
In an earlier response to these reports, Governor Lee said, “When we demanded answers, they cut off transparency & emboldened one of the worst human trafficking crises we’ve seen at our border in the last 20 years. I commend Senator Hagerty and Senator Blackburn for calling this out. Tennesseans deserve to know who is coming into our state.”
He also said on Twitter that Tennessee declined “the Biden Administration’s request to house unaccompanied minors and called on the administration to secure the border and stop scattering children across the country.”
Senator Bill Hagerty also went to Twitter to say, “Tennesseans deserve answers & they deserve them now. I have warned that Biden’s failure at the border would result in a systematic resettling of migrants in our communities. A new reality is happening in our country—every town is now a border town.”
Senator Marsha Blackburn and Representative Chuck Fleischmann sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to get answers about what is going on but have received no reply.
In a recent press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki addressed the reports.
Psaki said, “As we have been very clear about, children are abducted and as to unite these unaccompanied children, children under the age of 18, with families with sponsor families, so children were traveling through and have been traveling through Tennessee. They are simply on their way to unite with relatives and sponsors, to meet sponsors in the state or just traveling through Tennessee until they reach another destination to unite with family members or legal sponsors.”
15 Responses
You can’t stop a freight train with a Feather. To stop this Train it will take the People. Why isn’t every Tennessee Politico signing a letter saying the Tennessee will not allow it to be used as a Repository for the sins of our Government—Why?? You Know–we have too many that want to be populist and not Tennesseans.
keep these illegals out of tennessee
Tennessee doesn’t want illegals (children or not). Stop it before action is taken.
all lpanes should be watched and any carring illegals should be sent to washigton, no landings with any one illegal getting off
Great idea!
Why aren’t ALL airports being told to REFUSE airplanes from these areas? There’s no way someone doesn’t know that illegals are being brought in, esp under age 18! They have to have flight logs.
We all need to share this with 10 others and FLOOD BILL LEE AND THE BUS LINES with phone calls!!!
Because all airports are required to adhere to FAA regulations. That would be Federal Aviation Administration. The entire system is corrupt.
In reaction to the forming of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition in 2003 the Tennessee legislature passed 13 exclusionary laws that increased internal enforcement and criminal penalties for “illegals,” constructed as undeserving, rather than contributing members of society. They also passed a number of laws restricting “legal” migrants from entering our state without notification or security clearances.
Half of the senators and one-third of the representatives sponsored at least one bill in response to the forming of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition . Tennessee and other states st precedents at time that made it difficult to achieve a path to legalization for “low-skilled” workers and their families now living in our state. Migrants and their allies have continued to challenge these laws since they are not enforced!
Great idea!
Where is the uproar from Tennesseans??? Are we going to hide our heads in the sand?
The airport may be under the jurisdiction of the FAA, but the rest of the state isn’t, specifically the bus line. The bus driver should have been arrested as soon as s/he drove off airport property. Apparently the state, county and local officials can’t look this up: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-77 or their own state version. [note: perhaps they literally CAN’T, as I just tried to find it on the state’s own website and it just kept refreshing to the index page, no matter what I clicked on: https://www.tn.gov/lawsandpolicies.html).
Texas is decaring a Crisis due to illegal immigration. With the thousands of illegal immigrants coming through our border every day and now to other states it won’t be long before we have a crisis all over the US. This is going to impact our war on drugs, sex trafficking, crime, Pandemic recovery, taking care of our indigent population, our unfed children and homeless population…many are ex military suffering from PTSD and mental illnesses.
You can write letters all day long, Bill Lee, Bill Hagerty & Marsha Blackburn and NOTHING will happen. Get serious: be there waiting when the plane tries to land!
If the government refuses to abide by law, then we shall all become lawless. Don`t tread on me, we are at our limit.
Disgusting abuse of power by the presidents administration. Another revolution seems in order.
Perhaps another civil war? This time it could be the south that saves this nation.