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So it was a searing hot day in the middle of summer and I went to this very small rural town of

Alexandria, which is in the centre of Louisiana. Oliver Loughlin is the Guardian's US Southern

Bureau Chief. He lives in Louisiana and knew that there was something unusual about Alexandria's

airport. So I turned up at the airport and you

have commercial flights up on the gates, as you would see in any normal airport from Delta,

from American Airlines, there's a baggage claim desk. But actually when you walk over to the left

hand side of the air park, that's where you see there's a restricted access road. There are all these

unmarked jets sort of lining up on the tarmac. All they needed to get a closer look. He and a

photographer figured out that the only way to see what was happening on the runway was to go to the

golf course next door. We went into the clubhouse. We hired a golf cart from them and we ended up landing at the 13th hole where we could see the panorama of what was going on there.

It was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The tarmac was kind of shimmering in the humidity, and you just see these lines

of people shackled at the feet and at their hands being loaded onto planes, and only a few

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