"Repatriation Flights" Draw Criticism,
September 30, 2003
A U.S. policy of sending illegal Mexican immigrants who have crossed into the U.S. through the Arizona desert, on "repatriation flights" to a number of small towns in Mexico, is drawing criticism. The four towns used to drop off illegal immigrants are on the better guarded Mexican border. Critics state that the policy breaks up families, overcrowds Mexican border towns, such as Ciudad Juarez, and humiliates illegal immigrants.