According to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has quietly authorized the flights of approximately 33,000 illegal migrants directly to the New York region from foreign airports. This accounts for 22% of the city’s migrant influx. These flights were part of a program intended mainly for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan immigrants but have since expanded to include five other nationalities. The program, alternatively referred to as the “CHNV Program” or the “Advanced Travel Authorization Program,” allows US-based “sponsors” to apply for air travel permission on behalf of aspiring illegal border crossers in other countries. Once approved, these migrants arrange their own commercial flights into government-approved US international airports, where US customs inspectors process them into the country.
While Mayor Eric Adams continues to blame Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for the city’s migrant crisis, it’s essential to recognize that a significant portion of New York’s migrants arrived via these DHS-approved flights. The responsibility extends beyond state lines, and addressing the issue requires a comprehensive approach that considers both federal and local actions.
A separate program has brought in 420,000 more illegals from 100 countries.
Both programs are predicated on a legally challenged mass use of an authority in the Immigration and Nationality Act that allows a president to grant temporary “humanitarian parole” into the country of immigrants in emergency situations on a “case by case” basis.
But this administration has applied this highly restricted “case-by-case” parole authority to far greater numbers of foreigners than any other before, more than a combined 800,000 by both land and air ports paroles, to reduce the optics of thousands illegally crossing the land border at once.
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