Ted Cruz Demands Answers About 'Alarming' Way Illegal Aliens Fly Through U.S. Without Normal Screening

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The huge influx of illegal aliens into the United States under Joe Biden is creating all kinds of problems, including overtaxing the system and budgets to deal with them. 

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But there's another huge problem that has been going on for some time, another danger to the security of the nation, and it's finally getting some attention. 

You know how when you go to an airport you have to go through screening and you have to have an ID to get into the secure area and get on a plane?

Illegal aliens don't have to do that and are not subject to the same vetting, as Ashley St. Clair and James O'Keefe explained during a public Spaces discussion on Wednesday night. St. Clair spoke about her experience at the airport when she saw a large number of illegal aliens getting on her flight from Phoenix to New York.  They also had airline staff talking about the problem. 

She said that she asked one pilot, "Can you give passengers assurance that the migrants boarding these flights have had proper criminal and medical screenings?”

The answer was “No.”

Not to mention, many have no IDs. 

The illegal immigrants come aboard with nothing but what they've been given by border agents. St. Clair also found out that many of them have no identification at all and they are still allowed to board planes and travel domestically into the US. This is not possible for regular passengers.

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So illegal aliens can travel with fewer restrictions than Americans but also without real vetting, posing a huge risk to security. 

One pilot outlined some of the serious concerns they have. 

"What's really alarming," he said, "is that in large amounts the people that are coming across, the people that we're seeing are actually you know, fighting-age males, you're not seeing families. I've seen a few women and children but but largely it's, it's you know, males in their in their 20s and 30s."

St. Clair was interested in what information the pilots are given about the illegal immigrants who they fly across the country. "We know the screening practices really aren't up to par with what even other passengers go through," the pilot said.

He said that he spoke to another pilot who witnessed individuals being put on planes after being removed from handcuffs. "Just a few minutes ago," he said, "I got off the phone with a captain in another major airline and he's talking about the deportees that he was taking back to I believe it was Columbia, where they actually show up to the aircraft in handcuffs. And then they uncuffed these folks you know, they don't know who they are they sit them down a regular seats, there's no escorts, you know, no one there to keep an eye on them and make sure that they don't cause trouble."
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X owner Elon Musk even weighed in on how concerning it is that the pilots had to hide their identities to weigh in.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now demanding answers.

"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."

Cruz said even without any ID or proof of who they are, they are still released into the U.S. 

They can take this unverified "alternate identity" and use that 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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If illegal immigration wasn't bad enough already under Biden, add in more dangers to national security. Anyone could come in under this system wishing us ill and be shipped wherever they wanted in the country, courtesy of Joe Biden. 

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