With a more than seven-fold increase expected in the next few weeks, these flights should be expanded. In addition to allowing for safe and quick repatriation, they would also serve as a deterrent, discouraging more Haitians from attempting to cross the southern border unlawfully. With fewer individuals attempting to enter the country unlawfully, areas along the border would become decongested and help prevent the squalor and packed conditions seen last month.
Operation Allies Welcome — the Biden administration’s airlift of some 90,000 Afghans into the U.S. — is looking more like Operation All Welcome.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week backed off earlier assurances that evacuees had been properly vetted before entering this country. Testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mayorkas admitted that he doesn’t know how many had been screened.