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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is sounding the alarm concerning the impact the Biden administration’s “open border insurance policies” are having on airport safety — alleging that weaknesses in vetting might be placing security in danger.
“DHS, notably TSA, should clarify how it’s responding to the intense methods by which the administration’s open border insurance policies are undermining airport safety and Individuals’ security,” Cruz, who’s rating member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, stated in a letter to Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Cruz has been quizzing numerous businesses and airports concerning the impact that migration has had on the protection and safety at airports, together with the sheltering of migrants at plenty of main U.S. airports.
SENATE COMMERCE REPUBLICANS EXPAND PROBE INTO AIRPORTS IN ‘SANCTUARY’ JURISDICTIONS SHELTERING MIGRANTS
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photograph/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
On this letter to Mayorkas, Cruz highlighted three ways in which he says “the administration’s open border insurance policies are weakening airport safety…”
He pointed first to the parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV), which permits as much as 30,000 migrants from these international locations to fly into the U.S. by way of humanitarian parole. This system was just lately paused on account of giant quantities of fraud in sponsor functions.
He additionally highlighted knowledge that these being allowed in by way of the CBP One app, which is used for each CHNV and entrants on the border by way of parole, practically 96% of those that acquired an appointment had been accredited.
The Republican senator additionally pointed to a latest DHS OIG report, which faulted components of the app and its use of knowledge, discovering additionally that it couldn’t entry all biometric knowledge.
“In the meantime, as these unvetted aliens fly into the nation, TSA has deployed a major variety of air marshals—who’re alleged to be defending planes within the sky—to help CBP with administrative duties on the southern border, a priority I raised with TSA final October,” he stated.
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He additionally reiterated his prior issues about sheltering migrants at airports in Chicago, Boston and New York for the reason that center of 2023. Individually, he raised issues concerning the launch of migrants dropped at the U.S. by an ISIS-tied group. Eight individuals with suspected ISIS ties had been arrested throughout the nation earlier this yr.
“Airports stay a sexy goal for anybody seeking to hurt this nation and its residents,” he stated.
Cruz is requesting all paperwork associated to airport safety from unlawful immigrants, sheltering, vetting or screening of migrants, in addition to fraud present in parole packages.
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He’s additionally searching for paperwork associated to the shelter of migrants at a number of airports, the numbers of migrants flown into airports, and actions taken to take away unlawful immigrants from airports.
The letter comes amid a continued debate over the continuing border disaster. The Biden administration has stated it wants extra funding and reforms, whereas arguing that expanded lawful pathways have been profitable in decreasing numbers on the border.
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Republicans declare that the disaster was fueled by Biden-era insurance policies and the rolling again of Trump-era measures.
Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital, primarily protecting immigration and border safety.
He could be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.
