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Cruz quizzes DHS on TSA screening of migrants boarding flights: 'This is alarming'
Fox News ^ | 12/21/23 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 12/22/2023 12:02:53 AM PST by Libloather

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Wednesday wrote to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seeking more information about the screening of migrants who have come through the border via the CBP One app and are seeking to board flights.

"While Americans must present an acceptable form of identification to fly, or at least have their identities confirmed, TSA (Transportation Security Administration) is permitting illegal aliens without ID to opt for an alternate identity verification process utilizing the…'CBP One' app," Cruz says in the letter to Mayorkas, saying the process "takes illegal aliens at their word" on certain data and allows them to obtain DHS documents and fly out of airports.

"In effect, TSA is applying one standard for verifying the identities of American citizens, and another, weaker standard for ‘verifying’ the identities of illegal aliens. This is alarming."

The U.S. has been allowing around 1,600 migrants a day to be paroled into the U.S. through ports of entry using the CBP One app, which allows migrants to upload photographs and other information and schedule an appointment with a CBP officer.

Cruz, the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, says that even if they do not have a passport or other way to prove their identity, they can still be paroled into the U.S.

He then says that if they try to fly out of an airport, "TSA may use his unverified name and date of birth in CBP One to verify his identity, even though the person may in fact be a terrorist or other criminal traveling under a fake identity." Similarly, he says, Immigration and Customs Enforcement can use that data to issue a card to them under their name and date of birth.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: airlines; aliens; aviation; cruz; dhs; flight; tsa
You'll be getting the 'omnishot' soon. Boosters will follow.
1 posted on 12/22/2023 12:02:53 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Eff this skeezy banana republic that we live in.


2 posted on 12/22/2023 12:12:46 AM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
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To: Libloather

Just an odd question...since this ID-form-letter is pretty generic, why couldn’t a regular American guy/gal make up a fake one and just walk through the TSA folks with that, instead of a regular ID (dressed of course in traditional Peruvian clothing and uttering ‘I-don’t-speak-English’ over and over.


3 posted on 12/22/2023 12:20:08 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Libloather

Do they have to
take their shoes off
thru inspection lines
before boarding? Are
they also subject to TSA’s
groping policies?
I no longer fly, instead
choose to drive. Far more
inconvenient, but much
more pleasurable.


4 posted on 12/22/2023 1:06:11 AM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Libloather

It doesn’t matter. All of this is just show. Cruz and all the rest of the spineless Republicans will still give Biden & his minions all the money they want, to do what ever they want. The best use of these Senate & House committee rooms is to make porno flicks. At least someone other then the American people are getting the shaft.


5 posted on 12/22/2023 1:07:19 AM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: Libloather

Another letter that won’t be answered.


6 posted on 12/22/2023 1:22:13 AM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis)
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To: Lean-Right

They don’t have to do any of thi6s things. I think it was Andy Biggs who just flew and he said the illegals are ushered around Security. Americans have to endure the TSA Gestapo.


7 posted on 12/22/2023 1:47:51 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: Libloather

Ooohhh ... A letter. It wasn’t even strongly worded.


8 posted on 12/22/2023 1:49:12 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: Libloather

9 posted on 12/22/2023 2:10:43 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: Libloather

bttt


10 posted on 12/22/2023 2:12:16 AM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America.pz)
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To: roving

AND NOTHING WAS DONE


11 posted on 12/22/2023 3:19:08 AM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: Libloather

Sounds so obamaishness. M nufactured!
“ And that’s ALWAYS a gooo thing./s/” for the occassion.


12 posted on 12/22/2023 3:27:25 AM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: Libloather

Ooooh, alarming.

What next, from Ted and the GOP? Another sternly written letter?

🙃


13 posted on 12/22/2023 4:36:01 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Lean-Right

When I flew out of Phoenix recently, there numerous illegals on my flight. They each had a plastic pouch hanging around their neck with paperwork inside. They were the very first allowed to board. One was sitting directly in front of me i first class.


14 posted on 12/22/2023 6:41:45 AM PST by animal172 (This ain't the country I grew up in.)
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To: MCF

“ It doesn’t matter. All of this is just show.”
Exactly right!
Over the last three years I-35 through Texas has been widened and rebuilt. They also have built or are building truck/auto stations at almost every intersection along the interstate. They are moving this mass of people into the country to replace the old style citizens.
They want the hungry handout grabbing newcomers who can be indoctrinated to believe the government lies.
They are not going to stop this invasion, or even slow it down.
Don’t believe me? Just go visit Interstate 35 anywhere and sit and watch for 30 minutes. Guarantee you will see multiple buses tagged from Mexico going both directions. It never stops.


15 posted on 12/22/2023 6:46:28 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: Angelino97

Are these planes chartered just with illegals from who knows where or are they regular commercial flights with US families aboard?


16 posted on 12/22/2023 6:46:42 AM PST by bgill
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To: Libloather

When ALLAH AKBAR is shouted before the jet explodes in midair I hope David Muir remembers to show the names of those murdered by the Jihad Junta.


17 posted on 12/22/2023 10:56:12 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: MCF
All of this is just show. Cruz and all the rest of the spineless Republicans will still give Biden & his minions all the money they want, to do what ever they want.

This is truth. They can't even defund a democrat propagandda arm like PBS, much less a useless agency full to the brim of mouth-breathers like the TSA.

18 posted on 12/22/2023 11:06:50 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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