Biden administration officials imported some 320,000 illegal aliens through American airports directly from foreign countries last year alone, according to documents recently obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies through public records requests.
The past three years have been marked by increased crossings at the border, yet documents showed that United States Customs and Border Protection has “approved secretive flights” that take illegal aliens directly from foreign airports into forty-three American airports. The illegal aliens can preapprove their entry into the United States through a cell phone scheduling app.
The countries whose citizens are eligible to enter the United States with the app include Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, and Ecuador. Users can “apply for travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release” from the airports shortly after they are processed by Customs and Border Protection staff members.
Federal officials omitted the list of the airports through which illegal aliens have been entering despite requests for the information from the Center for Immigration Studies.
“For most of the past year, big-city mayors and state governors have loudly complained about the hundreds of thousands of foreigners showing up in need of housing, food, medical treatment, clothing, and education, placing extraordinary unfunded financial burdens on local populations,” the organization remarked. “The airport location information would undoubtedly provide a more accurate and complete picture of what is happening.”
The Biden administration claimed that data showing which airports were part of the initiative could not be publicly released because “bad actors” may upend law enforcement efforts to “secure the United States border” if they knew the processing volume at each airport.
Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than 7.5 million individuals entering the country illegally since President Joe Biden assumed office. Americans are now most likely to say that “immigration” is the “most important problem” facing the country, according to a survey from Gallup, marking a surge in concern about the issue ahead of the fall elections.
