Mid-Hudson News is reporting it remains unclear who sanctioned three flights carrying immigrants into Orange County Airport in the village of Montgomery last week. Approximately 25 teenagers under the age of 17, mostly girls, boarded a chartered bus at the airport. The bus was then stopped by local and State Police in the village after a pilot reported seeing activity at the airport alleged to be suspicious. Sources told Mid-Hudson News that Homeland Security was involved with the flights, but a federal official with that agency denied it. Then on Oct. 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services emailed a statement to Mid-Hudson News. “Children under the age of 18 who arrive at the southwest border without a parent or legal guardian are placed in the care of vetted sponsors by the Office of Refugee Resettlement while they await their immigration proceedings. This is done in close coordination with each vetted sponsor who is agreeing to care for the child and is mandated by long-standing legal requirements that have existed under multiple administrations to provide safe, appropriate care to unaccompanied children during the time they are in our care.” In a strangely worded explanation, former Montgomery Mayor Bill Schimpf said, “It has been said that the occupants on the local airplane shipments are being bused to a city of Newburgh church basement for shelter and further distribution, as well as the city of Middletown.” Read the full story at Mid-HudsonNews [dot] com.