As the migrant crisis at the U.S. southern border continues at historic levels, the Biden administration appears to have been secretly flying unaccompanied minors from the Mexico-Texas border to New York and Florida and settling them in suburban areas.
According to the New York Post report, such charter flights have been underway since at least August.
Per the outlet,
A Post analysis of online flight-tracking data suggests that around 2,000 migrants nabbed after sneaking into the US from Mexico have arrived at the airport outside White Plains on 21 flights since Aug. 8.
Records show some of the planes touched down between midnight and 6:30 a.m. — when a voluntary curfew is in effect — with two arriving from Houston at 2:13 a.m. and 4:29 a.m. on Aug. 20.
Just last week, The Post states it witnessed two planes land at the Westchester County Airport, New York. Most of the passengers who got off appeared to be children and teens, with a small portion being young men, presumably in their 20s.
The planes arrived at night, one at 10:49 p.m. Wednesday and the other at 9:52 p.m. Friday. The pictures provided by the outlet (here, here, here and here) show police standing by the young passengers, who were piled into buses. Some of them were later seen meeting with their presumed relatives and sponsors in New Jersey or were dropped off at a residential facility on Long Island.
One group of the young migrants was seen being dropped off at the campus of MercyFirst, a nonprofit child-welfare agency that provides housing and services for “children and adolescents who are the victims of societal problems,” according to its website. The organization also provides various services to immigrant youths and families.
A source familiar with the unusual developments at the Westchester airport told The Post that underage migrants are typically bused to locations including the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, upstate Newburgh, and Bridgeport and Danbury in Connecticut.
Local residents living near the airport said they were noticing irregularities in the airport’s operation, such as the airport being unusually poorly illuminated during night hours, and some of the planes arriving late into night, which never happened before.
One of the locals said,
I liked the way it looked like a little city — blue and white lights.
But since the middle of this summer, they are all off, except one or two of them on the top of the Flexjet hangar … I guess so you can’t see what’s going on.
The Post observed a similar scenario playing out at Florida’s Jacksonville International Airport last Saturday, where planes from Texas unloaded groups of minors who were later put on buses, all of which happened after 10:00 p.m.
One of the groups traveled from the airport to a juvenile detention center in the Apalachicola National Forest near Tallahassee.
Reacting to the news, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was “outraged,” and his spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw, stated, per the outlet,
If the Biden Administration is so confident that their open-border policy is good for our country, why the secrecy?
Washington, DC, sets immigration policies that do not affect them, and states — that lack information about migrant resettlement and do not have the authority to change federal immigration policy — are expected to bear the brunt of Biden’s reckless open-borders agenda.
According to local media reports from August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has acknowledged the flights but did not confirm how many such flights have taken place or how many children were involved. The department explained that these flights were a part of a program to reunite children with parents or a vetted sponsor. The children’s ultimate destination was said to be locations around New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
The program, however, was news for Westchester County Executive George Latimer. “The Federal government’s operation to transfer unaccompanied children from the Southern border to sites in NYC, NJ and Connecticut, connecting at our County Airport, was done without our prior knowledge of its approval,” he said.
Latimer added that while he had no authority to stop or alter the operation, he was opposed “to the surreptitious nature of late night flights.”
In 2021, CBP reportedly encountered more than 148,000 unaccompanied minors — up from only 34,000 the year before.
On Tuesday, The New York Post’s editorial board published an opinion piece stating the Biden administration is “playing a deadly game”:
There’s a reason the Biden administration is using secret flights to small airports to move unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed the border.
They don’t want voters to know just how many people are being waved right into the country, because President Biden understands that open borders might be the policy of progressives, but it’s not popular among the majority of Americans.
But you know who does realize these flights are happening? The people of Central and South America. Word travels fast that no one is getting deported, and that’s why they are paying money to smugglers to take their children on a perilous journey north.
And it is not just Central and South America. While migrants from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and other Central American countries traditionally make up the bulk of illegal immigration, it has been reported that there has been an uptick in people coming from places all over the globe — such as Asian countries, Haiti, Cuba, and even Romania and India.
