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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With American Samoa’s borders closed for about two-months now due to the coronavirus pandemic declaration, questions have been raised as to why ASG can’t charter a flight to uplift stranded local residents in the US to bring them home and that same flight could take...

![At the Pago Pago International Airport in mid-April, the close to 20 missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints as they boarded a Delta Air Lines charter flight to uplift them out of Pago Pago. [photo: J Pritchard/Photogenix/Port Admin] Missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints as they boarded a Delta Air Lines charter flight](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/evacuation_flight_3025_0.jpg?itok=8hmZ-wm3)