- A lawsuit reveals that Biden’s CBP refuses to disclose the airports where it transports undocumented aliens from other countries.
- It comes amid a continuing flow of migrants across the southern border.
- Biden’s expansion of the CBP One application allows immigrants to apply for asylum in their country, travel by plane to the US and gives them two years to obtain legal status.
The Biden administration has admitted to transporting migrants on secret flights to the United States, but lawyers for its immigration agencies say the locations could create “vulnerabilities” for national security.
Customs and Border Protection is refusing to release information about a program last year that secretly chartered flights for thousands of undocumented immigrants from foreign airports directly to American cities.
This means that while a record number of migrants crossed the southern border last year, the Biden White House was also transporting them directly into the country even though they did not have legal status.
The use of a cell phone application has allowed the almost undetected air importation of 320,000 foreigners without legal rights to enter the United States.
It arises from controversy over a 2022 transportation program in which the administration was criticized for using taxpayer money for overnight migrant flights across the country.
A new revelation in a FOIA lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s immigration agencies reveals that they will not disclose information about secret letters from immigrants from outside the country because it opens ‘vulnerabilities.’
President Joe Biden expanded the CBP One app to allow foreigners to apply for asylum from their home countries and then secretly fly them to U.S. airports from foreign airports.
Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Center for Immigration Studies found Biden’s CBP approved secret flights that transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from foreign countries to at least 43 different US airports from January to December 2023.
The program was part of Biden’s expansion of the CBP One app, which began early last year.
Immigrants were able, under Biden’s expansion, to request asylum using a cellphone app, called CBP One, from their home countries. But the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) points out that transporting these immigrants directly to the US is one of the least known uses of this application.
Foreign nationals who cannot legally enter the U.S. use CBP One to request travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release from those airports.
Under this parole, immigrants can remain in the United States for two years without obtaining legal status and, in the meantime, are eligible to obtain work authorization in the country.
The administration did not reveal which airports the undocumented aliens were transported to, originally citing a “police exception” in the refusal to provide information.
But new information from the CIS lawsuit reveals that the locations were not revealed for fear that “bad actors” would cause harm to public safety or that the information would create vulnerabilities in law enforcement.
‘Air ports of entry, which, if disclosed, would reveal information about the relative number of people arriving and therefore the resources spent at particular airports which, either alone or combined with other information, would reveal operational vulnerabilities that could be exploited. by bad actors who alter their patterns of conduct, adopt new methods of operation, and take other countermeasures,” CBP attorneys wrote in a document.
The program follows controversy in recent years when Biden secretly chartered flights of underage immigrants from the US-Mexico border to other US cities.
They added that this could “undermine CBP’s law enforcement efforts to secure the United States’ borders.”
But Republicans insist the southern border is not secure and demand that Biden implement stricter protocols between the US-Mexico border.
CIS notes that the secret flights are “legally dubious” and say that since CBP won’t reveal the locations for fear of “serious” consequences, it’s probably not a program that should continue.
The lawyers also did not reveal departure locations from foreign airports, leaving it unclear where these immigrants are coming from.
But those eligible for CBP One applications are citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and Ecuador.
