A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that President Joe Biden’s administration flew roughly 320,000 illegal immigrants into 43 different U.S. airports from multiple foreign airports last year, allowing the Biden administration to bypass border security data by directly transporting illegal immigrants into the U.S. from other countries.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the report was uncovered as the result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the organization. The Center for Immigration Studies noted, “The public now knows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has approved secretive flights that last year alone ferried hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens from foreign airports into some 43 American ones over the past year, all pre-approved on a cell phone app.”
The 320,000 illegal immigrants flown into the United States by the Biden administration add to the unprecedented level of illegal immigrant encounters by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The new report indicates that the Biden administration was able to bypass border security data by transporting hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the United States rather than having them attempt to cross the southern border.
While the Center for Immigration Studies lawsuit forced the Biden administration to disclose the number of illegal immigrants flown into the United States, the organization said Customs and Border Protection has refused to reveal information regarding which airports were used to transport the illegal immigrants.
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“CBP has withheld from the Center – and apparently will not disclose – the names of the 43 U.S. airports that have received 320,000 inadmissible aliens from January through December 2023, nor the foreign airports from which they departed,” the Center for Immigration Studies said.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the program used by the Biden administration to fly illegal immigrants into the U.S. was part of the expansion of the CBP One app, which was launched at the beginning of 2023. The organization claimed that the transportation of illegal immigrants directly into the U.S. is one of the least reported features of the CBP One app.
“The program at the center of the FOIA litigation is perhaps the most enigmatic and least-known of the Biden administration’s uses of the CBP One cellphone scheduling app, even though it is responsible for almost invisibly importing by air 320,000 aliens with no legal right to enter the United States since it got underway in late 2022,” the Center for Immigration Studies stated.
Through the CBP One app, illegal immigrants are able to apply for travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release, which allows them to stay in the United States and be eligible for work authorization for two years, according to The Daily Mail.
