While discussing the planes used for deportations, President Trump reportedly made a reference to the Nicolas Cage-led film Con Air.
During a GOP conference in Doral, Florida on Monday, Trump spoke at length about the nationwide immigration raids that are part of his planned mass deportation campaign.
After commending immigration officers for the huge number of persons detained and deported in the first few days, Trump revealed why many of those immigrants were shown in chains.
According to him, “every one” of the inmates on the deportation planes was either a murderer or involved in gang activities.
He then stated that not restraining them will result in an event similar to Con Air, a 1997 action film in which a group of prisoners arrange an escape aboard a plane.
“We were being scolded because we had them in shackles in an airplane. ‘This is no way to treat people.’ Now, you gotta understand these are murderers, drug lords, gang members, just the toughest people you’ve ever met or seen.” Trump said.
“How would you like to be the pilot of a plane? You got two pilots up there and you got 300 people sitting in a plane — every one of them either a murderer, a drug lord, a kingpin of some kind, the head of the mob, or a gang member — and you’re flying that plane. It’s not gonna end well. You ever see the movie Con Air?” he added.
“Except here’s the difference: the people in Con Air were actors. They weren’t nearly as tough as these guys. I would say that that plane would be gone before it ever left. Those pilots would be gone before it ever left. So, they don’t want us to shackle them. I don’t want to be in that plane.” he continued.
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