Source? The DAILY MAIL… no, NOT the NYT, NOT the WSJ, NOT the WP, Not CNN, NOT MCNBC… but Yes, the US team of the UK-based DAILY MAIL – it’s called ‘Journalism’
Lawyers for President Joe Biden ‘s immigration agencies admit disclosing locations of secret migrant flights would open up potential vulnerabilities. Customs and Border Protection refuses to disclose information about a program last year secretly chartering flights of thousands of undocumented immigrants from foreign airports directly to U.S. cities.
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This means that while record numbers of migrants were flowing over the southern border last year, the Biden White House was also directly transporting them into the country despite them holding no legal status. Use of a cell phone app has allowed for the near undetected air import of 320,000 aliens with no legal rights to enter the United States.
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It comes off the back of controversy over a 2022 transportation program where the administration took heat for using taxpayers money to overnight flights of migrants throughout the country. Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Center for Immigration Studies found Biden’s CBP approved the secretive flights that transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from foreign countries into at least 43 different American airports from January through December 2023.
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The program was part of Biden’s expansion of the CBP One app, which kicked off at the start of last year. Migrants were able, under Biden’s expansion, to apply for asylum using a cell phone app – called CBP One – from their home countries. But the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) notes that the transportation of these migrants directly to the U.S. is one of the lesser known uses of this application.
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Aliens who cannot legally enter the U.S. use CBP One to apply for travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release from those airports. Under this parole release, migrants are able to remain in the U.S. for two years without obtaining legal status and meanwhile are eligible for work authorization in the country.
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The administration would not reveal which airports the undocumented aliens were transported to by originally citing a ‘law enforcement exception’ in the refusal to hand over information. But new information from CIS lawsuit reveals the locations were not disclosed due to fear ‘bad actors’ would inflict harm on public safety or the information would create law enforcement vulnerabilities.
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‘Air ports of entry, which, if disclosed would reveal information about the relative number of individuals arriving, and thus resources expended at particular airports which would, either standing alone or combined with other information, reveal operational vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors altering their patterns of conduct, adopting new methods of operation, and taking other countermeasures,’ CBP lawyers wrote in a filing.
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They added this could ‘thereby undermine CBP’s law enforcement efforts to secure the United States borders.’ But Republicans insist the southern border is not secure, and are demanding Biden implement more strict protocols between the U.S. and Mexican border. CIS notes that the secretive flights are ‘legally dubious’ and claim since CBP will not disclose the locations for fear of ‘grave’ consequences, it is likely not a program that should continue.
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Lawyers also did not disclose the locations of foreign airport departures, making it unclear where these migrants are coming from. But those eligible for the CBP One applications are citizens from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and Ecuador.
Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13155765/biden-illegal-migrant-flying-program-national-security-vulnerability.html?ito=msngallery