On Monday, a Honduran national attempted to hijack a United Airlines flight, claiming he had a bomb, he attempted to storm the cockpit. He failed, but there’s more to the story.
In 2011 and 2014 he attempted to illegally enter the country, and was deported. In 2019, he was arrested in an attempt to enter through California. An immigration judge let him go in January of 2020, pending removal proceedings.
Not surprisingly, he had no difficulty remaining in America through the Biden Years. It’s even conceivable that some of the elected Dems would have flown down to Honduras to have a margarita with him had he been successfully deported. And then, on Monday, this ‘New Jersey’ man embarked on an American Airlines flight from Newark to New Orleans.
Why was he NOT deported a third time?
By that point, the ‘migrant’ had learned the precise language he would need to game the system. I’m trans and I’m afraid to be sent home.
BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the reason this 2x previously deported illegal alien was released into the country after his third illegal crossing in 2019 is because he claimed to be transgender and claimed fear of being killed in his home country on his asylum application, which was approved in early 2020. DHS has provided that section from his application 👇🏻
DHS alleges that this was a blatant case of asylum fraud and the “gaming of a weak asylum system.”
This detail first scooped by @JennieSTaer.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 12, 2026
This is yet another example of people who mean us harm exploiting our compassion to skirt our laws to mask hostile intent.
Another example has been raised by Paul Sperry, who reminds us that some of the muslim pilots we already have are potential targets for radicalization campaigns, and the very systems we have in place to keep terrorists OUT of the cockpits could be used — as they were nearly successfully employed in Flydubai Flight 1073 — could inadvertently guarantee a rogue pilot’s successful suicide attack.
As hostile actors keep shifting their tactics, we will need to adapt with them.
In this instance, we will either need to develop a far more sophisticated vetting system, or create some kind of an executable autopilot failsafe capable of locking out pilot control and executing a tower-assisted landing at the nearest suitable airport.
Once the problem is properly quantified, if there is a will to solve it, solutions to even the most difficult problems can be developed.
But first, we must begin to take them seriously.
If the latest crop of newly-elected Democrats is any indicator, we’re not there yet.
