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Originally Posted by Steve9930
I was passed a link this morning from a friend that indicates the US Government is already moving Refugees into the US. They are transporting these people VIA UPS Charter Planes that have been converted to carry passengers. The planes are coming into Harrisburg, PA Airport in late night flights. Now as most of these stories go I always take them with some degree of skepticism. However they also provided a link o an interview on Bill O'Reily with Governor Christie. In that interview Governor Christie indicated the US Government is moving refugees into the country without informing state officials. They bring them in and then assign them to non-government entities such as Catholic Charities to resettle them. Christie indicated there were 75 that were moved into New Jersey and they have no idea where they are in the state. He indicated that the transfer from the US Government to these non-profit private organizations does not under law give the state of New Jersey any power to make these organizations give any location information as to where the refugees were resettled. The article went on to caution that the debate about the 10,000 is a cover while they move thousands into the country. Had I not seen the interview with Governor Christie I would have just shrugged it off but there maybe some validity to all this nonsense. I was skeptical about Government in the past but this administration has shown such a disregard for what the people want that it would not surprise me if the article was spot on.
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From "Truth of Fiction" web site.
Started as a email video in November 2015.
The video had more than 131,000 views 10 days after it was posted on November 9, 2015. After the terrorist attacks on Paris and public debate on admitting Syrian refugees into the U.S. that followed, the video quickly went viral. Other versions also popped up on YouTube claiming that busloads of refugees had been brought into Pennsylvania on a UPS cargo flight.
A UPS spokesperson told TruthorFiction.com that the rumor is “erroneous.”
“UPS is a cargo airline and has not been involved in passenger flights of any kind into or out of Harrisburg. Suggestions to the contrary are based on misinformation,” Susan Rosenberg, UPS public relations director, told us.
The video doesn’t provide any hard evidence or proof to contradict UPS’s claim, either. After all, it only shows is the back of a charter bus driving on a highway at night. The narrator claims that buses were parked beside a UPS cargo flight, but there’s no video (or proof) that that actually happened. The narrator also says there were “about 30” charter buses driving down the road, but only one or two buses are visible in the video. Also, the numbers don’t seem to check out: there couldn’t be enough people on one cargo flight to fill up 30 charter buses.
Also, the way that UPS uses Harrisburg International Airport in the normal course of business doesn’t jive with the video’s claims. We confirmed that UPS does in fact use Harrisburg International Airport on a regular basis — but we quickly learned that international flights rarely (if ever) fly directly into Harrisburg International Airport from outside the country.
UPS moves about 22,800 tons of cargo through the airport each year. Because there are many warehouses and manufacturers in the region, the vast majority of cargo is outbound rather than inbound. Most often, UPS flies cargo into Harrisburg from airports in Williamsport and Scranton. Then, it’s combined with cargo brought in on trucks, and UPS flights depart from Harrisburg to Worldport, the company’s main air hub, in Louisville, according to Harrisburg International Airport.
So, in the normal course of business, international UPS flights don’t fly directly into Harrisburg International Airport from outside the country. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen, or hasn’t happened.
We’re classifying claims that UPS brought refugees into the country on a cargo plane as fiction. First, the company has directly denied that claim. Second, the viral video shows no proof, other than the back of a nondescript charter bus. Third, it appears that the vast majority of UPS flights fly into Harrisburg from other parts of Pennsylvania (not outside the country), and then depart for Louisville.
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