Anyone who pays any attention at all to the news is aware of the catastrophic crisis at our southern border, but far fewer Americans are aware of how many migrants are entering the U.S. through the nation’s airports.
A recent NPR report detailed how foreign nationals from Haiti are filming videos of themselves fleeing their countries by charter planes and posting those videos on social media networks such as Facebook and TikTok. The report details how migrants are flying from Haiti to Nicaragua, and then journeying to the U.S. border.
“Everybody, my fellow Haitians, were talking about the planes and taking advantage of them,” said one man who said he paid $8,000 for a charter flight from Haiti.
If this sounds a lot like human trafficking, there’s good reason for that. While the Biden Administration has condemned charter companies profiting from these flights, they themselves have been among the biggest offenders. The administration has abused its parole authority to create a program which facilitates the monthly air travel of 30,000 foreign nationals from countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, to the U.S.
After extensive fraud was uncovered, the federal government briefly paused the program, only to resume it several weeks later. The absurdity of this program has once again come to the forefront amid a heated debate over the resettling of Haitian migrants in Ohio.
The city of Springfield, Ohio—which is home to less than 60,000 people—has received an estimated 20,000 Haitian migrants who have been resettled into the country by the federal government. Most of these migrants were flown into the country by the Biden Administration and have predictably struggled to assimilate.
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The outrage from local residents has spurred questions about why the administration believed it was a good idea to resettle 20,000 Haitian migrants in a relatively small Midwestern community. Unsurprisingly, the Biden Administration and anti-borders activists have responded to this outrage by demonizing concerned residents as racists and bigots, while refusing to make a case for how this parole program serves the interests of the American people.
At face value, there does not appear to be any rationale for why flying tens of thousands of foreign nationals into the U.S. every month from poor, war-torn countries, serves the national interest. In fact, the only reason for the administration to continue these flight programs is their political interest in continuing to import large numbers of low-skilled foreign nationals while avoiding the scrutiny that comes with illegal border crossings. For the entirety of his administration, Joe Biden has been using air travel as a way to deceive the American people about the extent of the immigration crisis the country faces.
Since 2021, the Biden Administration has been flying illegal aliens across the country, which cost taxpayers at least $340 million in the first nine months of his administration alone, according to Breitbart News. Records earlier this year found that hundreds of thousands of migrants had been able to bypass illegal entry at the border by flying into the country through the “CBP One” app. While the administration flies foreign nationals to relatively small cities in rural America, they have expressed outrage at governors including Texas’ Greg Abbott and Florida’s Ron DeSantis for flying migrants to elite, liberal enclaves such as Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. The Biden Administration attempts to focus the public ire on border state governors and charter companies while conducting illegal migrant flights of their own on a much larger scale. The hypocrisy of this administration truly knows no bounds.
The Biden White House has taken a different public-facing approach to immigration in recent months, touting tougher border restrictions, and declining crossings. By flying unvetted foreign nationals into the U.S. through secretive flight programs, the administration can continue its anti-borders project while avoiding politically-damaging images of the border being overrun. Nevertheless, the continued influx of large-scale foreign nationals poses serious threats to the U.S. As a recent ICE report details, there are currently tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens residing in the U.S. It matters not if these aliens arrived by foot or flight. While one form of unfettered migration is more visible, they both have the same effect.
Illegal immigration is still illegal no matter what form it comes in. The Biden Administration’s attempt to transition its mass migration agenda from the border to the air is an act of deception meant to conceal the destructiveness of their policies from the American people.
William J. Davis is a communications associate for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative effects of mass migration.
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