Under Biden, U.S. Airports Become New Battlefront of Border Crisis

Thanks to the Biden Administration’s illegal use of “humanitarian parole,” U.S. airports have become the latest sector of the country flooded with illegal aliens, as tens of thousands of “parolees” bypass the southern border each month and land deep in the nation’s interior.

The majority of these aliens being trafficked by the Biden Admin. via U.S. airports hail from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua – the countries most responsible for record-crushing border numbers throughout President Biden’s first term so far.

Due to his administration’s evident and embarrassing failure at the southern border, President Biden and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas concocted a plan to illegally use “humanitarian parole” to continue importing as many foreign nationals into the country as possible.

This deceptive plan appeared to make headwinds at the border, too, due to the number of crossings falling slightly as a result of illegal aliens being shipped directly to airports throughout the nation’s interior rather than attempting to cross the southern border illegally and falling into the hands of Border Patrol.

The Washington Times reports:

Officers manning the country’s non-land ports of entry — chiefly airports, but also sea and ferry ports — counted nearly 50,000 unauthorized migrants in April, or roughly three times the rate just a year ago.

The migrants are part of a broader onslaught on the “ports of entry.” Customs and Border Protection’s office of field operations recorded 92,106 encounters with unauthorized migrants at the air, land and sea ports of entry in April.

That was more than four times the roughly 22,000 per month at the start of President Biden’s term.

Unfortunately, the Biden Administration has spun this shift in illegal immigration as a resounding victory – reasoning that every illegal alien arriving at a U.S. airport is an illegal alien that did not pay a Mexican Drug Cartel for smuggling services and less of a strain on U.S. Border Patrol.

“DHS has overseen a ‘whole-of-government’ effort that has reduced unlawful entries BETWEEN our ports of entry by 70%,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Blas Nunez-Neto told Congress last week – failing to mention that unlawful entries AT ports of entry have skyrocketed as a result.

It is apparent that the semantic shift is nothing more than a weak attempt by the Biden Administration to disguise the truly catastrophic scale of its failure to secure America’s borders and protect the security and quality of life of those it’s responsible for, American citizens and already present immigrants.

“It’s a shell game,” said Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner at CBP during the Trump administration.

Mr. Morgan noted that the illegal “humanitarian parole” program does have the benefit of easing the workload of Border Patrol agents but stated:

However, at what cost? Is feigning success in one area, by violation of the Constitution and a perversion of the laws of our country, is that worth it? No, I don’t think it is.

The Washington Times reports:

In April 2022, CBP recorded 262,109 encounters with illegal immigrants. Just 6.4% of them came through the airports and seaports. In April 2023, CBP recorded 275,448, and 18% of them came through seaports and airports.

Add in CBP’s land border crossings, and one-third of all illegal immigration activity occurred at ports of entry. In April 2022, that figure was just 22.2%.

Of those airport arrivals in April 2023, 10,437 were from Haiti, 7,316 were from Cuba, 5,435 were from Venezuela, and 5,215 were from Nicaragua. Some 5,435 others were from Ukraine. A special parole program was created for Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.

That’s nearly 35,000 unauthorized migrants welcomed via airports. In April 2022, the figure for those five countries was fewer than 1,000.

Additionally, Art Arthur, a former immigration judge and now a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said there is no way of knowing whether the administration is redirecting migrants away from illegal crossings and toward ports of entry or just inviting new migrants. “It’s like responding to a surge in shoplifting by handing out gift cards,” Mr. Arthur said. “There’s no guarantee the person you gave the gift card to is the person who otherwise would have shoplifted.”

You can read the entire article here.