REVEALED: Biden’s US cities are transporting hundreds of thousands of migrants in controversial program that sparked national security fears
The vast majority of migrant flights that President Joe Biden’s White House carries directly from abroad to U.S. airports to bypass the southern border land in Florida.
A new analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals that 326,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela have arrived in Governor Ron DeSantis’ state of Florida since the program’s launch in January 2023.
Lawyers for Biden’s immigration authorities declined to release data through a FOIA request on which airports received the undocumented migrants, claiming it would compromise security and create national security “vulnerabilities.”
While the latest analysis shows the eight cities with the highest number of arrivals, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed last month that flights landed at at least 43 different US airports from January through December 2023.
A new analysis reveals which US cities are seeing the majority of migrants arriving under President Joe Biden’s program of releasing up to 30,000 undocumented migrants each month for release into the US
The CNHV program was created as a way for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to bypass the border crossing and give Biden an optics victory by suppressing the amount of disturbing images.
Texas is already hard hit by the migration crisis, with thousands of illegal immigrants entering through the southern border every day. But the Lone Star State is also receiving the second-highest number of migrants through Biden’s flight program.
Since January last year, 21,964 undocumented migrants have flown into Houston through February. Nearly 13,000 were flown to California through Los Angeles or San Francisco airports.
The remainder of the nearly 15,000 other migrants allowed into the U.S. through this program during that period arrived at airports in Boston, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; and Chicago, Illinois.
The New York Field Office, which includes JFK and LaGuardia airports, recorded 33,408 OFO encounters with inadmissible aliens of chosen nationalities from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, according to Todd Bensman’s analysis.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security insists its CHNV program is not secretive in nature.
But the number and location of the arriving migrants was not previously disclosed, and CIS had to file a FOIA request to understand the program and conduct its own analysis to reveal where the migrants landed in the US.
CHNV is allowing 30,000 migrants to apply for asylum through the CBP One app. are flown to the US every month and with taxpayer money, as long as they have a sponsor who passes a background check. The undocumented migrants are given a two-year grace period to obtain status and in the meantime can legally live and work in the country on a ‘humanitarian parole’ basis.
The CIS analysis filters Office of Field Operations (OFO) airport customs officers’ encounters with nationalities in the CHNV program through public information available on the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website.
But the situation at the southern border has now improved and is now accompanied by thousands of migrants arriving by plane, paid for with US taxpayer dollars each month.
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While the data shows where the majority of these migrants fly, it does not necessarily represent the individuals’ final destinations.
The CNHV program was initially implemented to take pressure off the southern border crossings with Mexico, where thousands of asylum seekers arrive every day to turn themselves into border agents.
But Republicans and border hawks are not content with bypassing the border as a way to create the optics of quelling the crisis. They argue that the program instead allows hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to be released into the U.S. each year — and this time at taxpayer expense.
Biden’s plan to avert the crisis from the southern border didn’t work and now migrants are entering the US en masse, both through the border crossing and through the CNHV program.
Last month, shocking images emerged as Texas State Troopers and National Guardsmen clashed with hundreds of migrants rushing to a border crossing in El Paso, Texas.