Pilots & Rampers Charged in USA w/Immigration Charges/Arrested
Seven (7) Pilots & two (2) rampers have been arrrested on Immigration charges in the USA. Charges ranged from fake Passports to faleshoods on Social Security applications.
Two (2) of the Pilots were from American Eagle. One from DFW and the other from MIA.
An Immigration official said - "they lied to get into the cockpit and should never have been there". All those arrested are reported to be from Venezuela and may have paid as much as $20k USD to get into the USA and to get the "paperwork" that allowed them to get their jobs at the airlines.
General discussion by the TV talkingheads about all of them being from "South America" and "drug smuggling, etc.". .dAAvid -