U.S. authorities have been flying migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Canada border to Texas as part of a deterrence effort to tackle a rise in crossings, according to authorities, flight records and a Reuters witness.
U.S. Border Patrol has quietly transported about 100 migrants this month on two charter flights from Plattsburgh, New York, near the border with Canada, to the Texas cities of Harlingen and El Paso.
Gil Kerlikowske, a former commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection , Border Patrol's parent agency, said he could not recall the agency using charter flights for migrants caught crossing from Canada.A CBP official told Reuters that 48 migrants - 47 Mexicans and one Colombian - were flown from Plattsburgh to Harlingen on March 13 to be repatriated, calling it "the consequence of crossing illegally.
CBP declined to say whether the migrants were expelled to Mexico under COVID border restrictions known as Title 42. The restrictions are set to end on May 11 along with the COVID public health emergency, but the Biden administrationReuters learned of the flights from Thomas Cartwright, an advocate with the group Witness at the Border who tracks U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flights, which were used to move the migrants.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union for agents, said he was informed that plans for a third flight next week were now uncertain amid cost concerns.
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