America
Secret Ghost Flights Ferry 71,000 Illegals to U.S. Cities
A BY JAMES VARNEY
fter months of delay, the Department of Home- land Security has replied to a congressional demand
for information about the number of illegal migrants it has flown from bor- der towns to communities around the country. In 2021, it said 71,617 migrants were
dropped off in nearly 20 cities includ- ing Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. Immigration experts critical of the
Biden administration’s permissive immigration policies believe those num- bers are incomplete, especially regard- ing the most vulnerable migrants, those under 18, whom DHS classifies as “unaccompanied children.” The agency says some 40,000 of
the total transported are such minors, but that number is only a fraction of the 147,000 “encounters” the agency reports having with unaccompanied migrant children at the southern bor- der between January and October 2021.
What happens to the unaccompa-
nied children once they leave the air- port?
“Everyone wants to know where
they’re going, but nobody knows,” said Todd Bensman, a national secu- rity fellow at the Center for Immi- gration Studies, a Washington-based think tank. “Well, somebody knows,” he adds.
“The government knows.” The lack of information raises a
host of questions. Among them: What security and background
checks are being performed to ensure these minors are going to safe homes? What pandemic precautions have
been taken? Illegal immigrants dis- persed on commercial flights in 2021 were not tested for COVID-19, and agencies did not follow preven- tive procedures, according to a DHS inspector general’s report reviewed by RealClearInvestigations. Who is responsible for making sure
the migrants, children in particular, check in with the government and show up for court immigration hear- ings?
The difficulty of getting answers
Border Arrests and Deportations Plunge I
BY MARISA HERMAN
mmigration and Customs Enforcement recorded significantly fewer arrests and deportations during fiscal year 2021, and
immigration experts fear that the Biden administration’s “open border” policies will only cause those numbers to plunge further as more illegal immigrants pour across the border. The number of arrests and deportations logged by ICE took a
massive drop, with only 74,082 arrests of noncitizens and 59,011 deportations — a nearly three- decade low — according to the agency’s annual report. In comparison, the previous
year there were 103,603 arrests and 185,884 removals. In fiscal year 2019, the agency arrested 143,099 illegal immigrants and deported 267,258.
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from the Biden administration is frus- trating many state and local officials who say that tracking the thousands of illegal immigrants apparently melting into their communities is a madden- ing endeavor. “The Biden administration is run-
ning a clandestine, covert, middle-of- the-night, special ops mission using the same tradecraft the military does in operations against foreign ene- mies,” said Larry Keefe, a senior poli- cy adviser to Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. “This is all being done under the
cover of darkness, and no one really knows what is happening,” said Rose- mary Jenks, director of government relations at NumbersUSA, a group that favors immigration limits. “We don’t have laws in place to investigate the federal government,” Keefe said. “We’re being kept in the dark by our own country on some- thing that’s definitely contributing to human smuggling.”
This article first appeared on
RealClearPolitics.com.
“The Biden administration has turned the U.S. into a sanctuary
country, plain and simple,” said Mark Morgan, former acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner and visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation. At a time when the number of illegal immigrants crossing the
border has reached all-time highs, with 1.7 million illegal border crossings reported in fiscal year 2021, Morgan said deportations and arrests should be going up, not down. The Biden administration overhauled the responsibilities of
ICE by loosening whom the agency can arrest and limiting where arrests can take place. In September, a memo instructed agents that someone’s illegal
status should not solely be the basis for arrest and deportation. As of Nov. 29, ICE oficers were no longer permitted to arrest and
deport undocumented immigrants considered to be “contributing members” of the U.S. community, a group that included faith leaders, farmworkers, and frontline health workers.
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