American travelers are outraged by signs appearing at American airports that appear to allow immigrants onto flights without showing proper identification.
U.S. citizens traveling within the country have to show a valid identification card or passport to board a plane, but signs at certain airports say there are different rules for some newly arrived immigrants.
The signs state that the Transportation Security Administration is working with Customs and Border Protection to “validate the travel documentation of a non-U.S. citizen adult when the traveler does not have an acceptable form of identification.”
In practice, this means that migrants who have entered the country using the CBP One app (about 45,000 people a month) can use it as a travel document and even choose whether to allow agents to take their photo.
Retired CBP Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem told The Post this presents bad optics.
David Rubin took to Twitter to share his outrage that at this Miami airport immigrants can pass through security without being photographed. Rubin/X Report
“I am an American citizen and I am quite offended that these immigrants who have come here receive preferential treatment and are prioritized in so many ways,” he said.
“The rest of us are paying the price at gas stations and grocery stores. Taxes are going up. Still [the US is] continue bringing masses of people [in].”
“[The Administration’s mentality is] trying to make it the most humane and pleasant experience for these poor people in trouble because it is a very difficult ordeal to navigate an American airport… but you have to be kidding, many of them just arrived from the Middle East, crossed seven countries, “We use apps to get here, and we’re supposed to believe that the Phoenix airport might be too much for them…ridiculous!”
American travelers are outraged by signs appearing at airports that appear to allow immigrants to board flights without showing proper identification. AFP via Getty Images Passengers queue at Denver International Airport. AP
Those entering the country through the CBP One app must provide biometric information, such as fingerprints, and be photographed when interviewed at the border before being admitted into the United States.
However, Clem says authorities still only have basic information about people at that point, and questions how they can be sure people are who they say they are if they arrived at the border without a passport or ID.
“We base ourselves on what this person tells us and on a minimal information system,” he said.
“Do we really know who they are? Did they use the app or did a smuggler do it all for them?
U.S. citizens traveling domestically must show a valid identification card or passport to board a plane. Getty Images A sign at Tucson International Airport directed non-U.S. citizens without passports to a specific area. X @BillMelugin_
“If you are a known criminal, the probability that you will give the same name when you arrive in another country is quite low, unless you are a stupid criminal.
“There are so many questions that we don’t have answers to worry about.”
Numerous reporters at the border have published photographs of identification documents, passports and visas for travel through countries discarded at the border, often by people who do not want US authorities to know their real identification.
The TSA, CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not respond to the Post’s questions.
People wait for their relatives outside the Guatemala City airport. REUTERS
CBP has emphasized that those who have entered the country are screened using biographical and biometric information, and those who are on parole have already provided a photograph, Fox News reports.
The sign outlining the separate process for immigrants also noted that the vetting plan was still a pilot program and being tested, rather than a permanent fixture.
Last month, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, requesting more information about the screening of migrants who crossed the border through the CBP One app and who They boarded the flights.
“While Americans must present an acceptable form of identification to fly, or at least confirm their identities, the TSA allows illegal aliens without identification to opt into an alternative identity verification process using the… ‘CBP One’ app “Cruz wrote in the letter, saying the process “takes illegal aliens at their word” about certain data and allows them to obtain DHS documents and fly out of airports.
CBP has stressed that those who have entered the country are screened using biographical and biometric information. AP
“In effect, the TSA is applying one standard to verify the identities of U.S. citizens and another, weaker standard to ‘verify’ the identities of illegal aliens. “This is alarming.”
Cruz, ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, also noted that immigrants who do not have a passport or verifiable form of identification can also be inadvertently legitimized by the system, if CBP accepts false names and birth dates and then prints them. in government. issued identification cards.
“TSA may use your unverified name and date of birth in CBP One to verify your identity, even though the person may actually be a terrorist or other criminal traveling under a false identity,” he wrote.
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