Avelo, a low-cost airline with taxpayer support from Connecticut, will begin flying deportation charters for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security out of Arizona on May 12. This has disturbed Connecticutt Attorney General William Tong. He threatened Avelo that Connecticut might consider revoking its agreement to provide a $2 million revenue guarantee and a two-year freeze on aviation fuel tax for the low budget airline – if they profit from deporting illegal aliens in Arizona.
Constitutional and Civil Rights Activist Peter Szymonik saw a touch of hypocrisy there.
By Peter Szymonik
So this is rich.
“New Haven — Connecticut Attorney General William Tong sent a strongly worded letter to Avelo Airlines founder and CEO Andrew Levy Tuesday, seeking assurances that deportation charter flights Avelo plans to run from Arizona won’t violate the rights of immigrants. Tong’s letter seeks assurances that Avelo won’t shackle deportees — particularly children — and that the flights will not be used to separate children from their parents or to deport immigrants without a valid deportation order, among other issues.”
But when AG Tong is made aware that “family” court judges are placing parents in shackles in his state’s broken and corrupt “family” courts, for the “crime” of not paying millionaire attorneys fast enough or to their liking, or to shake them down and force them to liquidate their children’s college funds and retirement accounts under threat of imprisonment — in unlawful debtor’s prisons — that’s just fine to AG Tong.
AG Tong wrote: “These are flights separating parents from their children. These are flights where people—men, women and children — are shackled in handcuffs, waist chains and leg irons…,”
But when AG Tong is made aware that sociopathic “family” court judges are routinely separating children from their parents and family members for no reason in his state other than for state and divorce industry profit and greed — that’s just fine to AG Tong.
Judge Adelman, the dean of family court destroyers of families.
But when our “family” court judges and state agencies, including his own office, flagrantly violate parents’ fundamental and federally recognized rights — that’s just fine to AG Tong.
AG Tong: Clean your own house first before you cast any stones.
Beyond hypocritical and disgusting.
Editor’s Note:
Connecticut predatory attorney Ed Nusbaum has stripped families of their wealth for decades.
In Connecticut, family court is not abusing deportable aliens. The family courts in Connecticut target citizens. They don’t protect families. They don’t safeguard children. They use them as leverage. Custody becomes currency. Visitation becomes punishment. The game isn’t justice. It’s money.
Family court throws parents in jail – not for hurting their children—but for failing to pay lawyers fast enough—million-dollar lawyers, billing $800 an hour. Judges order parents to empty their retirement accounts and their kids’ college savings, force the sale of their homes, or else.
No jury trial. Just jail – via contempt.
The point is: AG Tong wants to protect families from being torn apart by ICE flights. But he has nothing to say when judges essentially terminate parental rights in family court, without a finding of unfitness.
AG Tong says deporting people who came to the USA illegally is an outrage. But in Connecticut, parents lose their children without a trial. They’re gagged by court orders, threatened with contempt if they speak out. And when they can’t pay–when they’ve sold their house, drained their savings, taken out loans– they’re locked in jail cells a “debtor’s prison.” All on the watch of the state.
AG Tong tells Avelo to honor public safety and “the rule of law.”
He should try doing the same. There’s a broom waiting in his own house.
