President Joe Biden is trying to destroy Florida and Texas by flooding the states with illegal aliens he’s illegally flying into the country.
Continuing his investigation of the airborne invasion of illegals, Tod Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies reported that Biden has dumped more than 300,000 illegals into the Sunshine State, and more than 20,000 into Texas.
Bensman also updated his figure of how many illegals Biden has flown into the country since he initiated the illegal program in October 2022: almost 400,000.
The Numbers
“The rationale for the program is to ‘reduce the number of individuals crossing unlawfully’ over the southern border — by flying them over it directly into the interior and then releasing them on parole,” as Bensman has explained before.
The number of illegal-alien colonists Biden has dumped into the country has reached “at least 386,000,” Bensman reported.
Bensman tallied encounters with border agents in the Office of Field Operations from the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He learned that Biden has dumped 326,000 illegals into Miami, Florida.
Other receiving cities are:
- Houston 21,964
- Los Angeles 8,382
- San Francisco 4,578
- Atlanta 4,515
- Boston 4,879
- Baltimore 3,784
- Chicago 1,556
“Whether those hundreds of thousands stay in those areas or fly on after their initial landing and release is not shown in this data,” he reported:
Many of the landing Cubans, Venezuelans, and Haitians will obviously choose to stay in Florida, where expatriate communities are already large. But some percentage of the newly “legalized” aspiring border crossers who land there and in Texas, New York, and California likely transfer to domestic flights to their final destinations across the nation.…
Begun in October 2022 for Venezuelans and expanded in January 2023 to Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Colombians, the program approves flight travel authorizations for aspiring illegal border-crossers still in other countries to instead arrange commercial airline passage for themselves over the southern border and then receive temporary but easily renewable “humanitarian parole” from CBP officers at the airport. One incentive to dissuade beneficiaries from illegal border crossings is that the parole program comes with eligibility for renewable work permits.
Also during 2023, the direct-flights parole program declared that Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Hondurans, and Ecuadorians also would be eligible, for a total of nine nationalities. The Central Americans and Ecuadorians show up in comparatively small numbers for now, having been added in the latter months of 2023, but could increase over time.
Drilling deeper into the data, Bensman found that from October 1, 2023 through February 306,505 “mostly Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan beneficiaries” landed in Miami.
Tampa received 19,490, which brings the total that Biden dumped on Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSanits to 325,995. They included 3,821 from Colombia, Ecuador, and the Northern Triangle in Central America.
Florida is fighting the administration in court, the Daily Mail reported, and DeSantis, a spokesman said, is making the state an “undesirable destination for anyone in the country illegally.”
Texas, Too
Texas is another of Biden’s targets at some 1,500 illegal monthly, Bensman reported, with some 21,964 landing in Houston during the same time. They included 6,660 Venezuelans, 5,400 Cubans, and 500 Haitians. Another 3,100 were Colombians, Ecaudorans, or Northern Triangle natives.
Also revealed in the data analysis were receiving international airports serving cities whose elected leaders are complaining of crushing unfunded budget burdens from the arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in recent years, not all of them by air, obviously. But some of them certainly by air as part of this direct-flight parole program.…
[New York] logged 33,408 … for FY 2023 through February 2024.
Some immigrants also are flying into other areas where local leaders are struggling with an immigrant onslaught of resettlement — and loudly petitioning the federal government for relief.
These include for FY 2023 through February 2024 … Los Angeles (8,382), San Francisco (4,578), Atlanta (4,515), Boston (4,879), Baltimore (3,784), and Chicago (1,556).
[T]hese relatively small numbers are likely much higher than this data reflects because some migrant passengers arriving in major international airports as part of this parole program probably transfer to domestic flights to finish their travels to interior U.S. cities hours of additional flight time away.
And politicians across the country aren’t complaining, Bensman reported, most notably New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Biden’s illegal flights have dumped 33,000 migrants into the Big Apple, and he’s already dealing with 150,000.
Public Can’t Know
Bensman again observed that the administration won’t release information on the receiving or originating airports because it would endanger national security.
“The public can’t know the receiving airports because those hundreds of thousands of CBP-authorized arrivals have created such ‘operational vulnerabilities’ at airports that ‘bad actors’ could undermine law enforcement efforts to ‘secure the United States border’ if they knew the volume of CBP One traffic processed at each port of entry,” he reported:
In short, 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, lest “bad actors” take advantage of them to inflict harm on public safety.
As of Bensman’s last report, Biden had imported 320,000 illegals by air during calendar year 2023.
H/T: Hot Air, Ace of Spades
