President Donald Trump name-dropped a movie featuring Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage while defending the use of handcuffs to restrain illegal aliens aboard deportation flights out of the United States. Trump referenced Cage’s 1997 action-movie “Con-Air” — in which a handful of convicts take over control of a plane that was supposed to be used to …
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President Donald Trump name-dropped a movie featuring Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage while defending the use of handcuffs to restrain illegal aliens aboard deportation flights out of the United States.
Trump referenced Cage’s 1997 action-movie “Con-Air” — in which a handful of convicts take over control of a plane that was supposed to be used to transport them to a new facility — and then argued that by keeping detainees handcuffed, federal immigration authorities were essentially attempting to prevent a similar scenario from playing out on their watch.
