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.
One of the least noticed, mysterious, and potentially the most controversial of the new rechanneling programs that use the CBP One app allows migrants to take commercial passenger flights from foreign countries straight to their American cities of choice, flying right over the border - and even over Mexico.
Biden officials have rarely, if ever, spoken of this "Family unification" flight program in the year since implementing it, perhaps mindful of the political outcry over the late-night "Ghost flights" that DHS stealthily arranges to ferry migrant children into various airports, and mindful, too, of strong recent political backlash in large U.S. cities like New York and Chicago to paroled migrants busing themselves in from the border.
The Biden administration did not release the numbers or receiving airports for Colombians or Ukrainians approved to use the direct-flight parole program, which portends much higher total numbers approved to fly in.
The data that has been released for the four nationalities shows that these hundreds of thousands of migrants used anywhere from 35 to 43 interior ports of entry, meaning airports staffed by U.S. Customs officers who do the work of paroling them into the United States.
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.
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.
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