What Is The Number Of Illegal Immigrants Who Fly?

The Biden administration has launched a new program to increase illegal immigration, allowing immigrants to fly directly from their hometowns into a U.S. city of their choice. President Joe Biden claims that this has allowed an invasion to occur at the border, with almost 10 million migrants crossing into the country. In fiscal 2017, about 700,000 travelers overstayed their visas in the U.S., and for the second year in a row, the number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border surpassed two million. The U.S. Border Patrol reported more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year, more than quadruple the number of the prior fiscal year and the previous year. Migrants were encountered 1.7 million times in the last 12 months, the highest number of illegal crossings recorded since at least 1960. As of October 2023, there were 7.8 million encounters nationwide under Biden, but this metric doesn’t confirm that 7.8 million people entered the U.S.

Undocumented individuals may use the following forms of ID accepted by TSA:

1. The Verifying that All Illegal Aliens Have Legitimate Documents (VALID) Act, which prohibits illegal immigrants from boarding commercial flights into the U.S. with fake IDs.

2. Many undocumented immigrants travel freely throughout the U.S. without encountering immigration officials. The primary purpose of these inspection stations is to “deter illegal immigration and smuggling activities”.

3. Can undocumented immigrants fly domestically in 2023? Yes, many can, but can an illegal immigrant fly within the U.S. in 2025 and later?