I expect the company sees them as private, so that they'll only share capacity with competitors when they want to and for the right price, untilllllll ....
Some other country decides to pull shenanigans and cut / hack the cable, in which case the company will insist the U.S. gov't get involved, maybe pay for the repair. Saying it's crucial for national security.
See also this image from the article. The design of the Aldebaran is a giant flying boat, with air intakes in the wings to help create the nuclear exhaust exiting the reaction chamber nozzle.
I believe that was the commenter's point - that the designers described patronizingly virtue signal about their accessibility priorities, while their other decisions are troublesome.
Sounds like the asylum process is an alternative stream, and the entire border has become a "port of entry."
When asylum is the low-friction way to enter the country and acquire a legal status, economics suggests fewer people will use the traditional immigration process.
In Morocco cats were everywhere. Cafes, high rises, farms, University, everywhere I went.
Even the airport! As we queued up to the ticket counter (this was decades ago) i saw cats wandering independently. I mused to my companion, "i wonder if they get into the secure area of the airport?"
Sure enough, after going through security and waiting at the gate, there goes a feline walking by wholly unbothered.
I wondered if cats ever got onto planes unwittingly. Didn't see any on our plane ... still wonder.
