Federal Government Admits to Flying 320K Migrants Secretly Into the US
The federal government admitted to flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the southern border.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) aims to expand immigration using the CBP One app, a phone application that allows anyone to apply for asylum while in their home country. According to a report from Daily Mail, using the CBP One app, the U.S. has continuously flown asylum seekers into the country without the knowledge or consent of the American public and given the migrants up to two years to obtain legal status.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) claims that the application “increased CBP’s capacity to process migrants more efficiently and orderly while cutting out unscrupulous smugglers who endanger and profit from vulnerable migrants.” The app was in use in December 2023 when the U.S. reported a record high of illegal border crossers.
The federal government maintains that American citizens — whose taxpayer dollars fund the flights for illegal immigrants — cannot know the destinations of the illegal immigrants. The federal government claims it could create national security “vulnerabilities.”
Lawyers for CBP claimed that revealing which airports the immigrants traveled through would “reveal information about the relative number of individuals arriving, and thus resources expended at particular airports.”
These flights have been ongoing since January 2023 when the federal government unveiled the use of the CBP One app, according to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit reported by the Center for Immigration Studies. CBP approved the transportation of hundreds of thousands of migrants into at least 43 different American airports between January and December of 2023.
The admission of flying illegal aliens into the country comes after a 2022 controversy wherein the administration used taxpayer funds to move illegal immigrants throughout the country on overnight flights. In 2021, an exposé via the New York Post forced the executive agencies to pause flying underage migrants from the southern border to New York and New Jersey. The federal government resumed its after-dark charter flights less than a year later.
