Conservative commentator reveals that Delta Air Lines flew hundreds of migrants in 'premium seats' from Phoenix to New York
The airline has not yet responded to the accusations.
Conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair shared on X (formerly Twitter) that Delta Air Lines transported hundreds of migrants on a flight from Phoenix to New York.
“My [Delta] flight from Phoenix appears to be flying migrants who crossed the border and are being shipped to New York. When I asked a Delta representative if this was the case, his response was 'What does it matter, they’re humans too,'” she wrote in the post, along with a video that went viral this Tuesday.
"What is happening? Are taxpayer dollars paying for this?” she asked.
The video, according to St. Clair, shows numerous immigrants fresh out of a migrant detention center boarding a plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
The commentator also reported that a Delta representative followed her "out of the Sky Club and had someone watching me because I asked if the migrants were being flown on my flight from the processing center.”
Delta has yet to respond to the allegations, and it has not yet been independently confirmed whether the passengers were, in fact, migrants who recently crossed the southern border or whether they arrived at the airport after leaving detention centers.
It is also not clear how the tickets were paid for these supposed migrants, whose legal status is also not defined.
St. Clair, who continued to post updates on the flight, said several of the migrants were in the "premium cabin" and the vast majority still had bags from processing centers with them.
According to immigration law, if a migrant was processed and requested asylum, they are not considered to be illegal.
Other users on X joined St. Clair and denounced the increasing influx of migrants at the Phoenix International Airport, from where migrants are apparently being sent to other cities in the United States.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), echoed these complaints on X : "It isn’t just Delta. It’s every major airline carrier. We are literally funding our invaders."
St. Clair's video comes amidst a deadly immigration crisis that is affecting the border states and also other major cities in the country that are receiving migrants from the border.
Although the conservative commentator's comments are not confirmed, states such as Texas and Arizona have sent migrants on buses to liberal "sanctuary cities" such as New York and Chicago.
New York, for example, received more than 160,000 immigrants in less than two years, causing the city's mayor, Eric Adams, to announce that the immigration crisis will have cost $4 billion in three years.