'Ghost Flights': The Mystery of the Migrant Kids the Feds Are Spiriting Into the US Interior

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : After a gumbo of federal agencies-CBP, DHS, DHHS, ICE, ORR-the government largely relies on nonprofit contractors to handle unaccompanied minors.
49% : The lack of information raises a host of questions regarding the health and welfare of the children, and more:What security checks are being performed -- and background checks to ensure these minors are going to safe homes?
48% : Keystone state senators remain dissatisfied with answers they have sought on flights packed with immigrants from the southern border that landed in the middle of the night in Scranton and other Pennsylvania airfields.
48% : Mastriano has now filed a series of FOIA requests of DHS and ICE, but he remains perplexed and angered at the reluctance of those involved in the system to provide clear answers.
47% : The agency says some 40,000 of the total transported are such minors, but that number is only a fraction of the 147,000 "encounters" the agency reports having with unaccompanied migrant children at the southern border between January and October 2021.
43% : Although the number of encounters does not equal the number of people who crossed, given that some are repeat offenders, the actual figures are even higher, because CBP does not release the number of "got-aways" it records.
41% : In an effort to shed some light on the situation in Florida, Gov. DeSantis issued an executive order in September that told state law enforcement and other officials to begin gathering information on the number of illegal immigrants federal agencies were bringing to Florida and where they wind up.
38% : The unaccompanied children are but a portion of the illegal immigrants who flooded across the southern border in 2021.
34% : The proposed measures would also "prohibit state and local agencies from doing business with any private entities that facilitate the resettlement of illegal aliens in the state of Florida from the southern border."
22% :DeSantis took that step after accusing President Biden of abandoning any pretense of protecting the southern border.

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