Onalaska, Texas, has a secret.

[kadee79]

Nestled along the piney shores of an East Texas lake, Onalaska lacks an airport.


A WFAA review, however, has found more than 1,000 registered aircraft claiming an Onalaska address. That’s equivalent to one plane for every three Onalaska residents, which is more per capita than anywhere else in the country. 


In fact, more planes are registered to Onalaska than the number of registered planes in entire cities such as Seattle, San Antonio, San Diego, or even New York. 


Just as surprising, the aircraft are registered to only two Onalaska P.O. boxes. That’s because the aircraft owners do not live there. Not even close. 


WFAA has learned Onalaska is ground zero for a practice that allows foreigners to anonymously register their planes, and one that critics say makes the United States an easy target for drug dealers, terrorists and other criminals seeking to register their planes. 


"When you can conceal the true ownership of a plane, you're putting a lot of people in jeopardy," said Joe Gutheinz, a former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) special agent. "If you're a terrorist and you have a way of concealing your secret ownership of a plane in the United States, you're going to do it." 


But industry advocates told WFAA that large corporations and foreign partnerships often need to use trusts because of the FAA’s strict citizenship requirements. 


To register a plane, owners need to be a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. However, the FAA will allow foreigners to register their planes by transferring a title to a U.S. trustee.

www.12newsnow.com/article/news/local/investigates/foreign-ownership-of-thousands-of-us-aircraft-cloaked-in-secrecy/287-959247e4-3aba-4c0a-a83b-639145e81a64?fbclid=IwAR0zAxVWxXTZc6v5naxHx98JgxFcTMktPMcskVxEivEObjW6BqaNZxUKFMY

[Tennesseer]

Hmmmmm.....

[weltschmerz]

The Wall will fix that!
Oh, wait......!


It won't.

[thyme4change]

Heaven forbid we do anything that would annoy a corporation.

[happyhoix]

Ya'll, stop looking at the town where hundreds of foreigners are registering their planes and instead, FOCUS ON THE WALL!

EVERYTHING BAD FLOODS OVER THE WALL!

[NastyWoman]

Feb 16, 2019 18:12:44 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Ya'll, stop looking at the town where hundreds of foreigners are registering their planes and instead, FOCUS ON THE WALL!

EVERYTHING BAD FLOODS OVER THE WALL!

No, no, no. A little concentration is needed here: we NEED the wall since it will stop the flooding. Nothing will flood OVER the wall!   Just a thought maybe we don't need a wall but we need an Ark instead → in case of all that flooding you know...

[countrygirl2]

I remember that place, I think they have all kinds of seniors living there in travel trailers and things.  It may be another town, but they wanted to tax them because people live their full time and they didn't want them taxed as homes, they won.


I'm wondering if they are doing this for revenue too.

[OldCoyote]

But,But,But, if the drift here to associate those  airplanes with drug deliveries,,,

Wasn't the argument here that almost all of the drug go thru a port of entry!!!!

[djAdvocate]

Feb 18, 2019 18:21:09 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

But,But,But, if the drift here to associate those  airplanes with drug deliveries,,,

Wasn't the argument here that almost all of the drug go thru a port of entry!!!!

not unless you think 2/3 is "almost all".

however, this is another defect in the "build a wall" argument, either way.

[OldCoyote]

So now it is 2/3, 

Let's think about that for a minute, for someone official say a number,  we will use the 2/3, do they know how much drugs are getting across the Border?

If  the know about the drugs ,,, Why aren't they stopping them??

So, given that they say this does that mean they Are they lying??

Or is it they have no clue how much drugs come across??  which is my guess,,

If I was a drug shipper, without going thru a port of entry,, risk the drug smelling dog and other detection methods used,

Instead, I would wait until a large group makes a run for it across the border, notify the border patrol that a large group is currently making a run for it,,

So when the border Patrol run all of the available officers over to the area where the large group has crossed, now scattered moving North .

A distance away I waltz across the border with my team of drug mules,, Home free,,,,,,,,,,,, made a ton of money,, while the Border Patrol is chasing down whole bunch of border crosser,

Annnnnd no wall to slow me up!!!!

[OldCoyote]

I do the same thing all the time here, when driving on the freeways,, when I go past a big wreck,,

I know that most of the officers in that area are tied up clearing that wreck,

That now I can put the petal to the metal with little risk of getting caught!!!!

If you are in that little Prius,, better get your ass out of the fast lane,,,

Monster Mega super truck clearing the way,,,, Wooooo Hoooooo!!!!

[djAdvocate]

Feb 18, 2019 18:45:16 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

So now it is 2/3, 

no, it has always been 2/3.  go back through the thread and see.

personally, I don't care if it is 51%. if it is 51%, we should go after the 51%, rather than the 49%.

[djAdvocate]

Feb 18, 2019 18:45:16 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Let's think about that for a minute, for someone official say a number,  we will use the 2/3, do they know how much drugs are getting across the Border?

If  the know about the drugs ,,, Why aren't they stopping them??

because it is quite difficult.

drugs coming across the border are floating in the gas tanks of cars.

they are rammed up the anuses of grandparents.

they are packed into the center of cucumbers.

they (as you have said) come over in backpacks.

they are disguised as flour, or other legal substances.

you want my honest opinion?  you are not going to stop it.

so let's stop trying to stop the import of drugs.

let's make them legal, and get criminals out of the trade.

let's stop making abusers criminals, and start treating

abuse as a medical condition.

this drug argument has been dumb FOREVER.

Trump is just making it a whole lot dumber.