Saturday, 21 September 2024

Report Shows Top Destination For Biden Administration Program To Fly Illegal Migrants Directly Into United States Airports

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A Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analysis of available public information on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) website determined the top destination for illegal immigrants being flown directly into the United States from abroad is the Sunshine State.

“This early evidence suggests that a great many of these inadmissible alien passengers, probably a majority, initially land at international airports in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Florida. In fact, Florida turns out to be the top landing and U.S. customs processing zone for this direct-flights parole-and-release program, tallying at nearly 326,000 of the initial arrivals from inception through February,” CIS wrote.

“Florida receives majority of the 386,000 inadmissible aliens who have been allowed to fly to interior U.S. airports as part of a controversial parole and release admission’s program launched in October 2022,” CIS stated on social media.

From CIS:

Lesser numbers also are landing in the regions of Houston, New York, both northern and southern California, and the Washington, D.C., area, the data analysis reveals. But the data for Florida shows it to be heaviest for initial landings and migrant releases.

Public knowledge of where these flights deliver migrants should matter to local, state, and national leaders in cities struggling with migrant influxes, who could use the information to financially plan for their care, or petition the federal government to stop the flights. The information may also hold implications for litigation by Texas, Florida, and other states that have sued to stop the parole programs on grounds that the administration's illegal abuse of the narrow statutory parole authority has directly harmed them.

Whether those hundreds of thousands stay in those areas or fly on after their initial landing and release is not shown in this data. Many of the landing Cubans, Venezuelans, and Haitians will obviously choose to stay in Florida, where expatriate communities are already large. But some percentage of the newly “legalized” aspiring border crossers who land there and in Texas, New York, and California likely transfer to domestic flights to their final destinations across the nation.

DHS would have that information. But this data analysis provides at least some contours of how the secretive program — sometimes referred to in government documents as the “CHNV program” or the “Advanced Travel Authorization” program — has been working.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the program illegal and unconstitutional.

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Daily Mail reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis is fighting back hard against a program that allows President Joe Biden's administration to fly migrants to Florida without notifying officials first and wants to make Florida 'undesirable' for illegal immigrants.

The Biden administration's CNHV program allows 30,000 undocumented migrants to be released into the country every month. And a new analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) on Monday reveals a vast majority of migrants flown into the U.S. are landing in Miami.

Lawyers for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) refused earlier this year to disclose in a FOIA request which airports migrants arriving on the program were landing after boarding flights in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CNHV).

The CIS report provides insight into their landing airports, which includes as the highest traffic areas Florida, New York, Texas and California.

Not only are states not alerted when more migrants are being flown there, the White House also makes it difficult for officials in those states to monitor incoming migrants and track them after they land.

'The federal government is encouraging illegal immigration and even aiding these individuals to enter the country,' DeSantis' Communications Director Bryan Griffin told DailyMail.com. 'They've cloaked these secretive flights as a lawful parole program.'

Florida is fighting back hard against these policies, Griffin noted.

And DeSantis' Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern added: 'The efforts in Florida are making this state an undesirable destination for anyone in the country illegally.'


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