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Summary: A little-known part of the Biden administration's CBP One parole program permits inadmissible aliens to make an appointment to fly directly to airports in the interior of the United States, bypassing the border altogether. Partial data on the program, just obtained by the Center for immigration Studies pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, reveals that more than 200,000 people from four countries have used this direct-flight and parole program over the past year.
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he administration has proven reluctant to provide any meaningful data about its vaunted CBP One-based border strategy, which it advertises as its central solution to mitigate the unsightly migrant surges as the southern border by using the online interface to manage mass paroles of inadmissible aliens who would otherwise cross illegally.
Since announcing and implementing this direct-flight parole program in October 2022 for Venezuelans and in January for Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Colombians, the administration has staved off at least one congressional inquiry (spearheaded by Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin) for the numbers. Similarly, the Center for Immigration Studies, which filed a FOIA request for the relevant data in March of 2023, was forced to sue CBP in order to obtain the records in a timely manner.
The administration has also sought to limit the release of data on the better-known parole release program using the CBP One appointment app at the physical land ports with Mexico (the one the administration mainly credits with briefly reducing illegal crossings at the border), and still has not provided total numbers over the span of its existence, starting in mid-2021.
The Nameless Airports
In response to CIS' FOIA request regarding the direct-flight and parole program, CBP has redacted and withheld the locations of the interior U.S. ports of entry into which the migrant applicants are flying after entering their biometric data and other information to DHS through the CBP One system. City leaders and residents would undoubtedly want to know how many are flying into their cities for planning, funding, and public input purposes, at the least.
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The CIS FOIA lawsuit demands breakdowns by numbers and nationality of every migrant invited over land ports by CBP One appointment who was then paroled into the country, dating to the program’s earliest iterations in 2021.
CIS first discovered and reported on the interface-managed parole program in November 2021, in Reynosa, and that all nationalities without limitation had access long before the administration rolled it out specifically to Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Cubans, and Haitians.
A year later, in November 2022, CIS discovered and reported that the CBP One managed parole program had been quietly expanded, without major media attention, to a dozen land ports, bringing in tens of thousands of migrants a month from Tijuana to Matamoros, Mexico. Those migrant beneficiaries included mainly Mexican nationals, but also Central Americans and Africans.
In the months since the administration announced the program for just the four nationalities, CIS has found many other nationalities using it too. They have included foreign nationals from Dagestan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Belarus, Mexico, and also many nations of South America, Africa, and still, Mexico.
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First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven (both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is an honorary chair), the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
originally posted by: CarlLaFong
a reply to: StoutBroux
I believe this is called 'Human Trafficking'.
Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. Airports
Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. Airports
DHS won't say which airports are receiving inadmissible aliens from abroad
By Todd Bensman on March 4, 2024
Thanks to an ongoing Center for Immigration Studies Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, 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. (See links to prior CIS reports at the end of this post.)
The Biden administration’s legally dubious program to fly inadmissible aliens over the border and directly to U.S. airports has allegedly created law enforcement vulnerabilities too grave to release publicly.
But while large immigrant-receiving cities and media lay blame for the influx on Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s busing program, 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 agency’s lawyers have cited a general “law enforcement exception” without elaborating – until recently – on how releasing airport locations would harm public safety beyond citing “the sensitivity of the information.”
Boston airports, for instance, spiked from 2.3 million during FY 2022 to 3.3 million in 2023, the public CBP website shows. Chicago, another migrant hotspot, rose from 6.3 million airport travelers in FY2022 to 7.9 million in 2023. New York City airports spiked from 17.7 million airport arrivals in 2022 to 22.9 million in 2023.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: StoutBroux
Here's the Latest Poll .............
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Of the approximately 15,000 migrants in Tijuana who have secured CBP One appointments, 44% of them have been Russian nationals. Haitians make up 18%, followed by Mexicans and Venezuelans who each account for 12% of the appointments.
Despite getting nearly half of the coveted appointments, Russian nationals make up less than 10% of Tijuana’s overall migrant population, according to Enrique Lucero, head of Tijuana’s migrant affairs department.
After an inquiry from KPBS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced changes to the app on Friday. Going forward, the agency will expand the number of daily appointments, give more time to complete appointment requests, and prioritize people who have been waiting the longest. These changes will start May 10, according to a press release.
But despite those changes, Lucero said the last five months have been a huge economic and racial disparity.
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“There is no filter to determine who is more vulnerable, and I think that is one of the major flaws of the app,” he said.
To illustrate his point, Lucero gave an example of a typical Russian and Central American migrant.
Russian nationals tend to fly into Mexico on tourist visas. They can afford to stay in hotels and connect their iPhones and Samsung phones to strong Wi-Fi signals. Meanwhile, Guatemalan nationals often walk or hitchhike to Tijuana. They sleep in overcrowded migrant shelters and struggle to connect outdated phones to the same Wi-Fi signal that 100 other migrants are using.
“There are migrants who have been waiting for an appointment since the app launched in January,” Lucero said. “But other migrants with more resources get one within a week.”
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originally posted by: vance2
They're flooding the voting booths if you ask me and of course you didn't.