The Department of Homeland Security has guided over 130,000 illegal immigrants from gang-ravaged Haiti into dozens of unidentified American cities, but it won’t say where.
Many of the 133,000 arrived in just one city that the Biden administration won’t identify, according to a federal report reviewed by the Center for Immigration Studies.
The Washington-based CIS, which backs ending illegal immigration, said that many immigrants flew themselves to the unidentified cities, while others arrived through land ports only to be released to wherever they wanted to go.
The report followed on another from a week ago that revealed how the administration let 320,000 “inadmissible” illegal immigrants into up to 43 unidentified cities. Some in Congress are now demanding to know where the immigrants ended up.
CIS investigator Todd Bensman noted that as of September 2023, “a total of 76,582 Haitians” flew to cities in the United States at their own expense. “Almost all of them flew into three airports, 47,768 of them into just one airport,” he said.
Since then, the total number has grown to 133,000 Haitians — or over a third of those in the administration’s secretive immigrant flight system. Others have come from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
“Of the 63,360 Venezuelans, 39,474 flew into one preferred airport. Of the 46,794 Cubans, 33,355 favored one in particular. Two-thirds of the 34,720 Nicaraguans flew into just two airports,” according to Bensman’s report, which has raised eyebrows in Congress.
Haiti has recently descended into chaos due to gang violence. Its prime minister, Ariel Henry, resigned on Monday.
While the administration has, at times, mentioned both its air and land entry program, the details of where the immigrants are dumped remain secret due to security concerns. Those let into the U.S. are in addition to the illegal immigrants crossing into the country from Mexico every day.
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“Since announcing the program, Biden officials have rarely spoken of it or provided public data clearly linking its entries to international flights. CIS filed a FOIA request for granular details of the program in March 2023 — and then sued when the government did not provide it,” according to Bensman’s report.
“Within these releases, there is no explicit mention that air travel is used to transport those four nationalities as that information would quickly attract media attention and raise questions. To boot, these monthly press updates fail to reflect that CBP has added five more nationalities to the flights program, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Ecuador, or offers a breakout of numbers that reflect them. No links or contextual descriptive information is provided at all, in fact, that would suggest air travel,” he said.
