First on the fox: The impact of a migrant increase on one shrine airport It is revealed in the new information provided by the Senate Committee that explored the treatment of the migrant crisis from the Era Biden.
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is chairman of the Senate Committee, has recently invited Massachusetts Harbor Administration The documents that the Republicans in the Committee in the Committee last year requested the use of facilities that will enable migrants to have a refuge at the Boston Logan International Airport.
Migrants were seen camping at the airports at the height of the crisis from the Biden era, while migrants descended into the cities of the shrines like Boston.
Senator Ted Cruz (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Donald Trump stopped Biden’s open border policy, but a complete investigation into this scandal is vital to prevent his future re -applied and consider the responsibility to those who are prescribed in Biden’s immigration command commands,” Cruz told Fox News Digital last month.
In the answers to the Massport Committee, received by Fox News Digital, the Port Authority estimated that more than 5,000 migrants in Logan arrived between July 2023 and July 2024.
“… Massport estimates that 5,500 migrants flew to Logan Airport during the period resulting in an action to respond to The arrival of unprecedented precedent From migrants to the airport, “the agency said in response to questions.
At the height of the Logan Airport, 352 migrants in the area of the E. 4100 -foot terminals stayed, and the body said the migrants were taken to state centers every morning, although some returned and stayed there.
As for the cost of staying, the authorities estimated that the costs daily amounted to $ 2,520, and the total cost was about $ 779,000 for additional staff, services and transportation. Between July and November 2023, the average number of migrants remained overnight was less than 100, but in the coming months the highest daily average were in April (181), May (265) and June (262).
Officials have said that the airport capacity does not diminish and that “all actions have been taken in accordance with federal and state law, so that the passenger public is afforded with a safe, safe, efficient and neat airport surgery.”
Migrants sleep on the floor at Logan airport. (David L. Ryan/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Officials also said they were not transferred to taxpayers. Instead, most of the costs were absorbed by Massport, while $ 332,000 additional costs were transferred to air carriers, and “no moment were airport facilities converted to migrants.”
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Furthermore, they noticed that there were “smaller conflicts” from migrants, but no one required arrests or criminal charges.
Ultimately, migrants are forbidden to use the airport as a shelter, and instead offered accommodation financed by taxpayers in July 2024.
“Since July 9, 2024, there has been a change of policy that the state announced that migrant families can no longer stay in Logan overnight, and since then there have been no family at the airport,” said Massport spokesman. “We work closely with the Committee to voluntarily cooperate with their request.”
The MPs initially requested information from Massport last year, claiming that the use of migrant accommodation facilities violated the conditions of federal funding.
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The new pressure comes due to the wider pressure of Trump’s administration to break up on arrival to the southern border. The number of migrants at the border He sank last summer and continued to go down under the new administration.
