The United States has accepted more than 400,000 immigrants from many countries since President Joe Biden took office, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Under the Biden administration’s CHNV program, some nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela will be eligible to come to the United States in a “safe and orderly manner” and obtain humanitarian parole status. This means they can legally stay in the United States and obtain work authorization. CBP announced that as of March, more than 400,000 immigrants from these countries were airlifted to airports across the United States. statement on friday. (Related: As the 2024 election approaches, illegal immigrants are double-timing their way across the U.S.-Canada border)
Since January 2023, 154,000 Haitians, 95,000 Venezuelans, 84,000 Cubans, and Nicaraguans have “legally entered the country and been granted parole” through the CHNV program, according to CBP. There are 69,000 people. 433,000 immigrants from these countries have been approved to travel.
EAGLE PASS, Texas – JANUARY 8: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Eagle Pass, Texas, on January 8, 2024. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Because these immigrants enter the United States on humanitarian parole status, they are not included in the total number of illegal immigrants encountered by CBP at the southern border. There were over 2 million immigrants encounter In fiscal year 2023, there will be almost 1 million people on the southern border and in the first five months of fiscal year 2024.
In the ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation, CBP’s legal team acknowledged that: Email In March, it complained to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) that allowing migrants to fly directly into airports across the country could create law enforcement vulnerabilities. CIS said the Biden administration will not publish a list of airports where migrants are flowing because “bad actors” could exploit these vulnerabilities.
“Exception (b)(7)(E) applies to the identification of airports of entry, which, if disclosed, would reveal information about the relative number of arriving individuals and would reduce the resources expended at a particular airport.” reveals operational information that, alone or in combination with other information, can be exploited by bad actors to change behavioral patterns, adopt new operational methods, or take other countermeasures. vulnerabilities that would undermine CBP’s law enforcement efforts to secure America’s borders,” the legal team said in a statement to CIS.
CBP and DHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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