‘This is bull***t’: George Santos has meltdown over ‘nightmare’ experience with Delta Air Lines as he calls out boss Ed Bastian over claims carrier was flying undocumented migrants

Recently deported former Congressman George Santos has had a public meltdown in a social media video in which he calls out Delta Airlines and its CEO over claims that the airline has been transporting undocumented migrants.

In a two-minute video on X, Santos shares his disappointment, noting that his favorite airline has now become a “nightmare.”

“I'm a big Delta Airlines guy, but after this revelation, people literally ended up with no names and no ID on their boarding passes,” Santos suggested without evidence.

'I want to ask [Delta CEO] Ed Bastian, someone who until recently I thought was a pretty good CEO, what does Ed care about?

'You have a very good reputation as one of the CEOs of the airline, but this is nonsense***. Why don't you tell us how many people you have transported under this name, without ID. Why does the TSA allow undocumented and unidentified people to travel with us on airlines?” Santos demanded to know.

'This is a damn crime. Who's going to do something? What the hell are you guys doing? It's a fucking joke. Congress is a joke. Our homeland security is falling apart. We need to renew the entire government at this point,” he ranted.

Santos' claims come after an angry Delta passenger accused the airline of flying migrants from Arizona to New York City.

Ashley St Clair, a right-wing commentator, shared images on Tuesday that she claimed showed migrants recently released from an immigration detention center at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

She wrote on When I asked a Delta representative if this was the case, his response was, “What the heck, they're people too.”

'What is happening???? Are taxpayer dollars paying for this????”

It is unclear whether the passengers were recently arrived migrants who had crossed the US-Mexico border or if they came from detention centers. However, migrants are not considered to be in the country illegally once they have been processed and applied for asylum.

It is also not clear how their plane tickets were paid for. DailyMail.com has contacted Delta Airlines for comment on the story.

Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz wrote a letter to Delta's Bastion on Friday, asking the executive branch to determine how many migrants Delta had transported on behalf of governmental or non-governmental organizations since January 20, 2021.

Gaetz asked how airline tickets are purchased for illegal immigrants, what identification TSA requires for illegal immigrants and whether Delta gets any incentives for transporting illegal immigrants.

He stated that NGOs use federal money to purchase flights for migrants who may not have passed verification checks, posing a security risk.

“Even more alarming than the American taxpayers footing the bill for transporting non-resident aliens into our communities is that they may not have been properly vetted,” Gaetz wrote.

“I am concerned that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) may allow non-resident aliens to board flights, including those operated by Delta Airlines, with an alternative form of identification that meets a weaker standard than that used to verify the identity of US citizens. .'

St Clair, meanwhile, continued to post about the flight on X, claiming that most of the flight was filled with the alleged migrants, and that they still had bags from the processing center in Phoenix.

She also said one of the alleged migrants sat next to her in a luxury cabin, and expressed concern over whether the passengers had been medically screened.

Arizona is seeing a huge influx of migrants crossing the border, with Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs ordering the state's National Guard to the border with Mexico to help federal officials manage it.

Hobbs asked President Joe Biden's administration to mobilize 243 Arizona National Guard troops already in the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, including Lukeville, Arizona, to help federal officers reopen the border crossing that closed on 4 December was closed indefinitely.

Although St. Clair's claims are not confirmed, southern states, especially Texas, have sent migrants to liberal cities like New York and Chicago.

Northern cities have been overwhelmed by the newcomers and run out of shelter, forcing them to convert hotels and public buildings into temporary housing.

A handful of U.S. cities experiencing an influx of homeless migrants have imposed their own shelter-in-place restrictions, citing a variety of reasons including rising costs, a lack of space and a desire to put pressure on people to find housing in their own country, or leave the city entirely.

Chicago imposed a 60-day shelter-in-place limit last month and is poised to start evicting people in early January. In Massachusetts, Governor Maura Healey, a Democrat, has limited the number of migrant families in emergency shelters to 7,500.

Denver had limited migrant families to 37 days, but paused the policy this month due to the onset of winter. Single adults are limited to 14 days.

In New York, the first families were expected to reach their 60-day limit just days after Christmas, but the mayor's office said these migrants will get extensions until early January. So far, about 3,500 families have received a warning.

Unlike most other major cities, New York has had a “right to shelter” law for decades, which requires the city to provide emergency housing to anyone who requests it.

But officials have warned migrants that there is no guarantee they will stay in the same hotel or in the same part of town.

Adult migrants without children already have a shorter limit for staying in a reception center: 30 days.

Mayor Eric Adams estimates that the city will spend $12 billion over the next three years to accommodate the influx, setting up large-scale emergency shelters, renting out hotels and providing various government services to migrants.