âDHS has intentionally made our country more vulnerable to adversaries with dangerous policies that put Americans and fellow passengers at great risk.â
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is demanding information from the Biden administration, questioning the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for allowing 320,000 inadmissible illegal immigrants to fly on commercial airliners without government-issued identification.
âWhile American citizens and foreign visitors legally in the U.S. must present an approved form of identification to fly, TSA has chosen to allow illegal aliens with no identification to choose an alternate identity verification process operated by CBP One before flying on commercial airlines into U.S. airports.
âThis reckless policy puts the authenticity of fundamental identity verification information for illegal aliens at issue, such as their name and dates of birth, potentially allowing secret agents, terrorists, and other criminals to adopt a new identity here in the United States,â Mr. Scott said.
The effort is part of the administrationâs âlawful pathwaysâ strategy to reduce the number of illegal crossings at the southern border, the report CIS noted. The program allows asylum seekers to schedule an appointment using the CBP One app instead of rushing to the Texas border.
In the letter, the senator from Florida raised the alarm about this TSA screening policy, saying, âCBP routinely paroles inadmissible illegal aliens into the U.S. under a self-provided name and date of birth, which has allowed other agencies like TSA to later rely on the uncorroborated CBP One data as if it were verified.â
âDHS has intentionally made our country more vulnerable to adversaries with dangerous policies that put Americans and fellow passengers at great risk and weaken U.S. national security,â Mr. Scott said.
âSomething Far Worse Than 9/11â
In response to the news, Elon Musk warned that the influx of âunvetted illegal immigrantsâ presents a national security threat and lays the groundwork for âsomething far worse thanâ the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
âFrom an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border,â including the cross-border trafficking of drugs such as fentanyl, he said. âAnd an awful lot of the violent crime in the United States is at the hands of gangs who are themselves involved in the distribution of that fentanyl.â
Mr. Wray also warned that the FBI is âvery concernedâ about a particular human smuggling network whose overseas facilitators have ties to ISIS.
Parole Program
On March 8, a federal judge ruled in favor of the Biden administration, dismissing a lawsuit from Republican-led states regarding the immigration parole program.
Under the program, immigrants must apply ahead of time for parole by providing the name of a person who will agree to financially support them if theyâre approved.
The immigrant must also pass a background check and present themselves at a Port of Entry rather than entering the United States illegally.
The Biden administration introduced the program in January 2023, allowing up to 30,000 people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela to legally enter the United States each month. As of November 2023, about 234,000 nationals from these countries had entered the United States via this program, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.
Emel Akan and Aldgra Fredly contributed to this report
Original News Source Link – Epoch Times
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