High-risk migrants allowed into US without proper ID, internal Homeland Security report says

“High-risk” migrants were allowed to enter the US at the border without proper ID and now roam the country, a scathing new report by the Homeland Security inspector general claims.In many cases, the migrants were trusted to provide their own personal information before being allowed in and are now free to fly on domestic airlines without identification because of lax oversight by immigration authorities and the Transportation Safety Administration, the 37-page report reveals.“TSA’s vetting and screening procedures do not eliminate the risk that noncitizens who may pose a threat to fellow passengers could board domestic flights,” the report said.“Under current processes, [Customs and Border Protection] and [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] cannot ensure they are keeping high-risk noncitizens without identification from entering the country.”The details emerged one day after DHS warned that the threat environment in the US will “remain high” in the coming year, with migrants with “terrorism ties” contributing to the elevated level. In the inspector general’s report, the office said immigration agents were observed processing 53 migrants entering the country in Nogales, Ariz., and San Ysidro, Calif., and at border stations in Nogales and Yuma, Ariz.

and Chula Vista and Imperial Beach in California, in April 2023.The inspectors saw the agents review documents, collect DNA samples and conduct interviews with the migrants, then enter biographical data into an immigration database.But seven of the migrants had no identification, making for 13% of the total group.“Because immigration officers are not required to document whether a noncitizen presented identification in the databases, the data we obtained may be incomplete,” the IG report found.“Therefore, neither CBP nor ICE could determine how many of the millions of noncitizens seeking entry in the United States each year entered without identification and whose self-reported biograp...