VERIFYING 4 claims about the Biden administration’s migrant flights – By Emery Winter, Casey Decker (MSN) / March 6, 2024
Large numbers of migrants continue to cross the southern U.S. border without legal authorization, keeping immigration policy a central point of debate during the 2024 presidential election season.
Tabloids like the Daily Mail have recently published stories that claim “325,000 migrants have been flown into the U.S. on secret flights under Biden.” Former President Donald Trump echoed this claim during a speech on March 5. Multiple VERIFY readers have emailed us inquiring about the claim.
We VERIFY four key questions about the migrant flights.
QUESTION #1
Is there a program that allows migrants otherwise ineligible for admission into the U.S. to fly into the country?