A new detailed investigation reveals that President Biden has secretly brought in hundreds of thousands of illegals from South America airports to forty-three U.S. cities, upending efforts by pro-open-border Democrats to pin the growing blue-city migrant crisis on the state of Texas and its strategy of busing them north.
At least 320,000 illegals—far more than reported before—were participating in the extraordinary operation, which was kept secret from the public. The government acknowledges that these immigrants are “inadmissible.”
The Center for Immigration Studies has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against U.S. Border Protection, but the agency has refused to reveal which 43 airports it uses to dump people following direct flights from South America.
According to a CIS report, “CBP has kept from them the 43 U.S. airports that have got 320,000 illegal aliens from Jan. through Dec. 2023, nor the airports they departed from. While large immigrant-receiving cities and the media blame this on Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.”
The administration’s allegations that it is keeping the cities secret out of fear that “bad actors” would “undermine law enforcement operations to secure the US border if they knew the amount of CBP” are fresh to its probe. Citing an email it received, the center stated, “One traffic handle at each point of entry.”
The initiative under consideration is Biden’s plan to allow undocumented immigrants to enter the United States through an app without going via Mexico.
Since it began in late 2022, the program at the middle of the FOIA litigation has allowed the Biden White House to import 320,000 aliens who do not have the legal right to enter the United States, but it is arguably the most mysterious and little-known use of the CBP One cellphone scheduling app. Todd Bensman, the report’s author, said as much.
“Aliens unable to enter the nation lawfully seek humanitarian release and travel authorization from certain airports using the CBP One app under these legally questionable parole schemes. Adults who are eligible for work permission can have their legal status extended for up to two years under the parole program,” the author said.
They purchase flights to international airports in the United States after obtaining authorization from Washington, where CBP staff quickly process their release. According to Bensman, each person is in charge of covering their own airfare. That can be less risky and cost thousands of dollars less than crossing into Mexico to get to the border of Texas, Arizona, or California.
In addition to another program that permits CBP One users entry into the United States, there is also the direct flight program. According to the paper, between May 2021 and December 2023, that scheme “brought in yet another 420,000 immigrants from roughly 100 nationalities.”
