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By Steven Nelson
Published March 8, 2024, 1:38 p.m. ET

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WASHINGTON — A group of House Republicans fired off a post-State of the Union demand Friday that cardiac arrest during 'chroming' social
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the Biden administration “immediately terminate” a program that’s allowed more than 320,000 migrants
into the US — so they don’t have to illegally cross the southern border.
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Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC), joined by 22 other GOP lawmakers, made the request in a letter to US Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) acting director Troy Miller, citing a recent report from the Center for
Immigration Studies, which advocates for less immigration and has been suing for records on the
program.

“We write today to express our grave concerns over the Biden administration’s actions to fly approximately
320,000 illegal immigrants from Latin American airports to 43 cities across the United States,” wrote Fry, a
Gold Star father arrested after
member of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees. heckling Biden during State of the
Union
“These secretive flights have compounded the effects of the already historic crisis at the Southern Border,”
the letter says .
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“We urge you to provide Congress and the American people with information as to where these illegal
immigrants have been deposited into the country and immediately terminate this practice.”

The letter specifically seeks data on the destinations of the migrants and information on government costs
and personnel responsible for overseeing it.

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Biden, 81, said in his annual speech to Congress on Thursday night that he wants to rein in the US-
exico border crisis by reducing the asylum processing timeframe from “six to eight years” to “six weeks”
by boosting resources — so that “it’s highly unlikely that people will pay that money and come all that way
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House Republicans accuse Biden of causing the migrant crisis by terminating former President Donald immediately returned it
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Republicans also contend that Biden’s “parole” program launched last year to allow asylum seekers to
bypass the border could be unlawful and a way to cook the books by making the influx of migrants appear
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In January 2023, the Biden administration announced it would allow 30,000 asylum seekers per month
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into the US from four countries combined — Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela — if they passed a
background check and had a US sponsor.

Federal data show that as of December, 327,000 asylum seekers from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Video
Venezuela arrived through the parole program — including 67,000 Cubans, 126,000 Haitians, 53,000
Nicaraguans, and 81,000 Venezuelans.

The migrants, who travel into the US through commercial flights or arrive at ordinary border checkpoints,
are processed using a cellphone app called CBP One, which is also used for a family reunification
program that allows migrants to enter the US to rejoin relatives.

The reunification program is open to citizens of Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti,
and Honduras.
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In total, CBP says on an informational page , “413,300 individuals have successfully scheduled Frazier go fifteen rounds at MSG in
appointments to present at ports of entry using CBP One. The top nationalities who have been processed “Fight of the Century"
are Venezuelan, Mexican, and Haitian.”

The practice of allowing migrants to circumvent the border hasn’t dampened the surge, as a large majority
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of people crossing illegally also are allowed to enter the US to await asylum decisions.

After 180 days, asylum seekers in the US are entitled to work permits.

December saw an all-time monthly record with more than 302,000 people arrested for illegally entering
from Mexico — equivalent to the population of Pittsburgh.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in January that more than 85% of those detained
for illegally crossing the border were being released into the US — up from 71% in October and 74% in
November.
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About 2.5 million people — nearly the population of Chicago — were apprehended after illegally crossing
the US-Mexico border in fiscal 2023, which ended Sept. 30, in addition to an estimated 670,000
“gotaways” who evaded authorities.

Fiscal 2022 set the previous record, with nearly 2.4 million apprehensions along the border — up from 1.7
million in fiscal 2021.

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