The military flight of deportation provided by the government of US President Donald Trump to Guatemala, which took place on Monday (27), must have cost at least $ 4,675 per immigrant, according to data provided by US authorities and Guatemalate.
This is more than five times the cost of $ 853 observed to fly in the first class of American Airlines on a trip from El Paso, Texas, the starting point of the flight, according to research done with public aviation tariffs.
The cost is also much larger than a commercial chartered flight by the US Immigration and Customs Service (ICE).
Trump launched last week deportation flights as part of his immigration emergency statement, sending six military flights as immigrants to Latin American countries.
Only four landed, all in Guatemala, after Colombia refused to authorize the landing of two C-17 aircraft, sending their own aircraft to seek immigrants after Trump.
A plane coming from the US with Brazilian deported reached Manaus last Friday, but was not a military aircraft.
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A US authority, which spoke to Reuters but asked not to be identified, calculated the cost to operate a C-17 military transport at $ 28,500 per hour. The round trip to Guatemala, not to mention soil time or operations to prepare the aircraft for takeoff, took about ten and a half hours, according to the source. A guatemalate authority told the Reuters that the plane landed with 64 people on board.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the subject.
