Bombshell report alleges Biden team forced airports to house migrants, risking safety

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The Biden medication allegedly pressured U.S. airports to location migrants contempt warnings that it could compromise information and enactment travelers astatine risk, according to a bombshell Senate report.

The 47-page document, "Flight Risk" released by the Senate Commerce Committee, alleges the White House directed the Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to find airdrome facilities for shelters oregon processing centers for migrants.

According to the report, the medication instructed DOT and FAA to "inventory disposable facilities" astatine some federally owned and section airports and to "divert national resources" to enactment migrant arrivals.

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Travelers astatine O'Hare International Airport (ORD) successful Chicago, Illinois, US, connected Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) anticipates screening 40 cardinal passengers this vacation season. Photographer: Vincent Alban/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Internal emails cited successful the study amusement interest among staff. On Oct. 6, 2023, 1 FAA authoritative wrote to Massport:

"We person received a petition from the WH to find if determination are disposable facilities connected airdrome oregon surrounding areas… This is an contiguous inquire truthful delight prioritize this effort."

Another DOT staffer responded candidly: "Yikes, this is decidedly Fox News fodder successful the making."

The committee recovered that astatine slightest 11 airports, including Boston Logan, Chicago O’Hare, and New York’s JFK, were asked oregon adjacent pressured to location migrants wrong terminals, hangars, oregon auxiliary buildings.

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A motion marks the entranceway to the FAA office successful Washington DC connected October 7, 2024.  (J. David Ake/Getty Images)

FAA officials, according to the report, recognized that specified usage would usually request national support nether grant-assurance rules. 

Instead, they "ignored them astir of the clip erstwhile airports utilized their facilities to location aliens," per the report.

Massport, which operates Boston Logan, warned national counterparts: "We are not designed oregon resourced to negociate the intake of migrant populations… this would make a big of unintended information and information consequences."

Despite that warning, the study says Logan hosted up to 352 migrants overnight successful Terminal E, spending $779,000 connected security, cleaning, and transportation.

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International terminal, train, and power operation astatine New York's John F. Kennedy Airport (Skyhobo via Getty Images)

At Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, arsenic galore arsenic 900 migrants were sheltered successful a shuttle terminal. 

Between April 2023 and February 2024, the study says constabulary logged 329 work calls and 26 arrests, including thefts, disorderly conduct, and a decease investigation. 

Chicago officials acknowledged that "asylum seekers [we]re not restricted to the staging area."

The study besides highlights a 2024 information breach astatine JFK Airport involving Kleber Loor-Ponce, described arsenic "an alien from Ecuador [who] ran past a information station into ‘the unafraid country astatine [JFK],’ toward 2 runways."

When apprehended, "Security recovered him, arrested him, and recovered a container cutter and brace of scissors connected his person."

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This divided shows migrants astatine Boston Logan International Airport and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. (Getty)

Beyond airports, DOT and its sub-agencies were allegedly directed to assistance successful different migrant-support operations.

The FMCSA, the study says, was told to assistance nutrient a "Know Your Rights" pamphlet for autobus passengers and to coordinate with states tracking autobus companies transporting migrants.

The FTA was "encouraged to punctual section transit agencies that national grants could beryllium utilized to determination migrants."

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U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris be the inauguration ceremonial of Donald Trumpi successful the U.S. Capitol Rotunda connected January 20, 2025, successful Washington, D.C.  ( Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images)

The committee concluded that these directives reflected "a unsafe diversion" of national proscription resources.

"The Biden-Harris medication made airports and aviation little secure," the study states, "by allowing and encouraging aliens to structure astatine U.S. airports, by allowing improperly vetted aliens to alert into and passim the United States, and by diverting needed national aerial marshals to the border," it said.

In a connection to Fox News Digital, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee connected Commerce, Science, and Transportation, said, "This study exposes however the Biden Department of Transportation conspired with section leaders successful New York, Boston, and Chicago to location migrants successful airdrome facilities astatine payer expense." 

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"Their decisions – to transport amerciable aliens done airports without individuality checks, adjacent those with felonies — shows successful caller item however Biden’s unfastened borderline argumentation coopted authorities agencies to enactment American citizens astatine risk," Cruz added. 

Emma Bussey is simply a breaking quality writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked astatine The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, crossed desks including foreign, politics, news, athletics and culture. 

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