The Empty Promise of ‘Rigorous Security Vetting’ in New Migrant Border-Crossing Program
By Todd Bensman on January 26, 2023
CBP One
AUSTIN, Texas – For its new border “enforcement” plan – the one that pre-legalizes intending border-crossers while south of the border and then flies or escorts them across official ports of entry, President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security assures that all must first pass “rigorous security vetting”, and “security background checks”.
DHS has just added four new nationalities – Cubans, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and Haitians – to the plethora of other nationalities that had already been crossing through land ports of entry for at least eight months under the “CBP One” reservation system. They include Syrians, Tajikistanis, Russians, Somalis, and Afghans. These newest four nationalities of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti may be the most numerous of those using the CBP One pre-legalization process, accounting for up to 360,000 pre-legalized entries a year among them.
But it must be pointed out that, for super-majorities of all the foreign nationals who have and will use this new ad hoc parallel immigration system, meeting the program’s top, No. 1 requirement of “rigorous” security vetting will turn out to be all but impossible. Security vetting for the entire program stands as an empty promise, an unfulfillable requirement that will bring danger into the nation. Here’s why:
https://cis.org/Bensman/Empty-Promise-Rigorous-Security-Vetting-New-Migrant-BorderCrossing-Program
