American Airlines asked the federal government on Wednesday to stop using its commercial planes for "transporting children who have been separated from their families due to the current immigration policy."
The announcement, which was posted on American"™s website, was the latest fallout from the Trump administration"™s decision to separate parents who have arrived at the southern border illegally from their children. Soon after American"™s announcement, and similar statements by other major airlines, President Trump signed an executive order to end the separation of families and detain parents and children together.
The involvement of the airline industry in the drama showed just how pervasive and passionate the opposition to the original policy had become. Several flight attendants for American, the world"™s largest airline, had posted testimony on public and private social media channels in recent days, describing how they had seen groups of Latino children on domestic flights, accompanied not by parents but by federal agents…
