Avenatti tweets from McAllen airport:

[Leghorn21]

Here is a pic I just took at the McAllen airport of seven young boys of detained parents being transported out of the area by handlers via AA flt 5772 to DFW. Who knows where they are going from there. Sending children 1000 miles away from their parents is a disgrace. — Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti)

Link to tweet

[lunatica]

1. Keep getting under their skin Avenatti!

They must be thinking you’re some kind of plague by now!

[uponit7771]

2. K&R

[octoberlib]

3. Love this guy.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

4. Hopefully someone tracks them at DFW and

posts whether they are boarding other flights or being taken from the airport at DFW.

We need to keep tracking the illegal movements

Thank you, Michael Avenatti, for informing the world.

[Dem_4_Life]

15. Flight just landed 7 min ago according to a flight tracker online

I hope so too that someone at DFW is tracking them down now.

Thank you Michael Avenatti!

[OnDoutside]

5. And there's this...

Link to tweet

[malaise]

10. They are stealing these children

I knew it

[OnDoutside]

16. Yes, stealing them to extort more money from the taxpayer. I wonder what Donnie's cut was ....

[malaise]

20. And to make money for themselves

Via adoptions and trafficking. This is far from over. They are vile cretins

[OnDoutside]

22. Yup, every bit.

[Sherman A1]

6. I thought American Airlines was refusing to participate?

Seems at odds with their statement.

[grantcart]

7. They requested ICE not to use them for the forced separations

There are other minors who arrived without family and are actually unaccompanied.

No way for the airline (or Avenatti) to guess which is which

In the last 2 years 60,000 unaccompanied minors came to the US.

[malaise]

9. Same here

Strange

[AZ8theist]

25. Yeah, WTF American Airlines???

[Ilsa]

42. I tagged AA in a tweet about this. No response. nt

[Ilsa]

43. HERE IS THE STATEMENT from American Airlines over

Avenatti's tweet:

In a statement, the airline reiterated its most recent position, and added "We don't know if these travelers have been separated from their parents or are refugees."

[DURHAM D]

8. Why are they dressed alike? nt

[BigmanPigman]

12. The moron probably wanted them to look like

gang members or criminals. The girls and babies are kept separate and they won't allow photos since the govt wants to keep them hidden so they won't arouse sympathy from American's.

[LiberalArkie]

13. Silly, because they are prisoners.

[OhNo-Really]

24. Walmart Profits

[C_U_L8R]

27. They're disguising groups of kids as sports teams

Please, good congresspeople and media, don't let up on your investigations.
There's much more going on than Trump is letting on.
Where are the sick babies? Are kids being drugged? How about the girls?
How many have actually died in custody? And how would anyone even know??
Please don't let up, please don't.

[AlexSFCA]

11. we also need to think about solutions

what should be done, I am thinking more immigration judges appointed to speed up all cases; more streamlied criteria, working with Mexico to have them accepting many of the refugees from central america... what else, I’d like to have some talking points please share

[Marthe48]

21. kids and parents get the same case number

with a designation p,c,m,f such as 123456789m2 123456789c1, 123456789c2 so first number is mother's case number, second is one of her kid's case number and third is her other child's case number. In all of the case reports, put detention facility of each family member, and, since we have computers, update the case reports if any family member is moved.
I hate the bastards responsible destroying families, stealing kids, ruining our country.

[Hekate]

33. Kids are being shuttled between 3 massive federal bureaucracies. The preverbal ones are ...

...probably lost forever. Parents are being given a flyer in English with an 800-number to call that at last report does not work. There was no plan in place for any of the consequences of this policy -- including tracking.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Fascist Trump DHS has NO plan to re-unite children with parents. Truly evil ripping families apart

[QED]

17. Not to nitpick but they are minors...he should have blurred their faces. nt

[Leghorn21]

28. Good point, Q - perhaps the young men were asked if it would be okay to publish their photograph

on social media, and they just said, “I gotta tell ya, at this point, I seriously don’t give a shit.”

[lagomorph777]

18. American Airlines just claimed they wouldn't transport Trump's hostages.

Looks like quite a black eye for AA.

[IggleDuer]

29. They asked the government not to put them on AA flights.

That doesn’t mean that the Trumpers have to listen. Once booked for a flight, AA probably cannot refuse passage.

[Leghorn21]

30. Here's what I'm thinking here, lag (fwiw, of course) - maybe it's all been discussed with AA, and

all agreed to go ahead and get on that AA flight because logistically, what other arrangements are an option for them? - I bet they just want to get to wherever the FUCK they’re being sent to and be done with it -

It is all too horrific - these kids are probably in shock, at the very least -
- - -

[BannonsLiver]

40. That's a possible scenario

Another is Aventi’s tweet is what prompted their reaction. I have no idea which came first.

[ancianita]

19. He should have them followed, find out just what HHS is doing to these children. They ARE children.

They are the world's children. Innocent human beings. Not pets. Not workers, or invisible servants doing white service.

[Marthe48]

23. He could tell their guards he's their lawyer.

get their names,refer them to RAICES. a lot of work for one man. Can any of us talk to kids we see, obviously being transported? Get one name in a group, track that name, eventually get the names of the rest of the kids in the group? Ask the guards for their names, who employs them. Whatever any of us can do. So the people know they aren't invisible.

[Honeycombe8]

26. I hope we're not creating a generation of young males who will hate the country.

Trump doesn't understand how everything in the world is connected. And that there are consequences for every action.

[volstork]

31. Of course we are.

It is part of their plan. The military-industrial complex will need fresh batches of terrorists to fight...

[Honeycombe8]

35. I hope these young men notice the acts of kindness they run across. nt

[bdamomma]

38. Is this called

human trafficking?? They are just dropping off these kids never to see their parents again. This is horrible and I wouldn't blame those kids if they turned to hate this country. How would we feel if it was our kids taken away from us and sent somewhere else????

Just treating them like they "animals" that was trump word for them. This has got to stop.

[Honeycombe8]

39. Then they are deporting the parents...WITHOUT THEIR CHILDREN. I don't understand...

I don't understand what's going on.

Altho I think I have an idea. THEY DON'T KNOW WHO OR WHERE THE CHILDREN ARE FOR SPECIFIC PARENTS.

[bdamomma]

41. I think they deliberately did that not knowing who the parents were

Stephen Miller/Trump and Bannon/Sessions are evil POS. I want to hear them MSNBC mention that fuckin Stephen Miller's name that he was the architect of this.

[pangaia]

32. AA said they would not be a part of flying these children anywhere...

[Sophia4]

34. Maybe Aeroflot (Russian airline) would oblige the Trump administration.

Just joking!

[Honeycombe8]

36. It probably would! And Trump would pitch it...we don't give it enough business!

It has been persecuted by prior administrations and punished for things that are not its fault! I'm getting a good deal on this. A great deal. The BEST deal! You know I'm the best at getting deals. So it's making America great again, and helps our friend Russia!

[Sophia4]

37. Wouldn't be surprised. Yes. The BEST deal!

[Scurrilous]

44. K&R

[niyad]

45. didn't AA say they weren't going to let their planes be used to transport these kidnapped

children?