In a novel, heavily redacted alert, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) set up that cut offal federal agencies did not filledy appraise hazards associated with releasing noncitizens without identification into the U.S. and allotriumphg them to travel on domestic fweightlesss.
Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari said in the alert that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) fall shorted to promise that hazardous noncitzens without ID are not go ining the country and boarding domestic fweightlesss.
The IG said that according to federal law, “noncitizens without ID are not adignoreible into the country and “shall be hanciented,” but that CBP and ICE are permitted to free noncitizens into the U.S. based on various circumstances.
The alert remarks that CBP and ICE acunderstandledge self-alerted bioexplicital adviseation, which they employ to give migrants immigration establishs. The migrants are then able to get on domestic fweightlesss, even if they do not have identification.
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Immigrants line up at a far U.S. Border Patrol processing cgo in after passing the U.S.-Mexico border on December 07, 2023 in Lukeville, Arizona. (John Moore/Getty Images)
The examineor ambiguous said he asked DHS for data on the number of noncitizens who did not have identification and were freed into the U.S. between fiscal years 2021-23, but CBP and ICE were unable to supply the adviseation becaemploy they did not log into their system whether or not noncitizens had identification.
The IG inserted that “immigration officers we interwatched acunderstandledged the hazards of allotriumphg noncitizens without ID into the country.”
When it came to the TSA, the alert set up it relied on data and background examines on noncitizens from CBP and ICE to resolve if a noncitizen was a danger.
The alert said if the data from CBP and ICE was infinish, “TSA’s methods to screen individuals who pose a danger would not necessarily stop these individuals from boarding fweightlesss.”
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Travelers line up at a TSA screening area at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Austin-Bergstrom International Airport via AP)
Several portions of the alert are heavily redacted, particularly where TSA carry outed appraisements on the hazards of using the CBP One cell phone app as a screening tool – the results of the appraisements are not disshutd in the alert.
The IG’s alert goes on to say they identified “analogous frailnesses” in CBP’s screening processes, which permited “hazardous individuals into the country.”
One of the hazardous individuals who was freed into the U.S. was done so while on the FBI Terror Watchenumerate in 2022. There were also two Afghans paroled into the U.S. as part of Operation Allies Welcome, who have posed a danger to national security, the alert remarks.
Migrants paemploy in line to go in the shelter set up by the authorities for migrants as migrants paemploy for an nominatement thcimpolite the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) one application in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on May 23, 2023. (Christian Torres Chavez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
“If CBP and ICE carry on to permit noncitizens – whose identities immigration officers cannot validate – to go in the country, they may inadvertently increase national security hazards,” the alert endd.
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Both ICE and CBP pushed back aobtainst the IG’s alert, and the DHS did not concur with the alert’s discoverings. TSA inserted that the alert does not mirror their current policies.
DHS said they cannot hancient all individuals subject to detention, including inadignoreible noncitizens without ID, due to cut offal reasons, including a deficiency of resources, such as bed space.
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ICE said it is currently funded for a detention capacity of 41,500 beds, which does not permit them to hancient every noncitizen who does not have ID and valid write downs, while CBP said their detention facilities are for “stupidinutive term” detention.
CBP inserted that they cannot legassociate hbetter noncitizens extfinisheder than the law permits, even to mitigate potential hazards.
Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the U.S. Hoemploy of Recurrentatives Homeland Security Committee Reuncoverans, reacted to the alert in a statement to Fox News.
“It’s embarrassing that the Biden-Harris administration needs an official regulatement watchdog to tell them what anyone with the sweightlessest bit of frequent sense insightfilledy comprehfinishs,” Green wrote. “This administration should not be letting unvetted non-citizens roam free in our communities and get on structurees, especiassociate when their identities cannot even be verified. The colossal fall shortures write downed by the OIG are horrible enough—even worse is that they are happening on a daily basis with the consecrateing of the Biden-Harris White Hoemploy.”
