America’s airports have become the latest frontline in the border as illegal immigrants pour in by the tens of thousands each month, bypassing the U.S.-Mexico boundary and landing deep in the country’s heartland.
They’re coming via the administration’s new “parole” program, which seeks to take Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans, who had been rushing the southern border, and redirect them to airports.
“It’s a shell game,” said Mark Morgan, who served as acting commissioner at CBP in the Trump administration.Apprehensions by Border Patrol agents rose late last year, sank at the start of this year, then rose again in March and April, though they are likely to be significantly lower once May’s numbers are released.
Of those airport arrivals in April 2023, 10,437 were from Haiti, 7,316 were from Cuba, 5,435 were from Venezuela and 5,215 were from Nicaragua. Some 5,435 others were from Ukraine, which has its own special parole program, created for those fleeing the country after the Russian invasion. Administration officials say that since they aren’t jumping the border and since they have been pre-scheduled by CBP officers, the port arrivals are using “lawful pathways.” Others dispute that characterization, saying they are still considered “inadmissible” under the law, making them illegal immigrants, even if they have a tentative legal status.
CBP, in response to an inquiry for this article, said that since the airport parole program began, more than 95,000 people have been allowed in. The number of people from those four countries who tried to jump the border went from nearly 3,500 a day in mid-December to less than 340 a day in late March.
Mr. Morgan, though, said shifting how people enter does nothing to change the numbers of illegal immigrants gaining access to the U.S.Most of them will still end up with no valid claim to be in the U.S., based on historic rates of asylum adjudications, he said. But they’ll be nearly impossible to dislodge, and will go on to join the already massive illegal immigrant population.
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