Airports in major cities across the US were forced by the Biden administration to house scores of migrants during the border crisis despite safety risks, a bombshell report from the Senate Commerce Committee has alleged.

Senate investigators concluded that the Democratic White House’s actions made flying less safe due to a lack of migrant vetting and diverting critical resources intended to keep air travel secure, the 47-page “Flight Risk” report revealed.

“The Biden-Harris administration made airports and aviation less secure by allowing and encouraging aliens to shelter at U.S. airports, by allowing improperly vetted aliens to fly into and throughout the United States,and by diverting needed federal air marshals to the border to address the border crisis the Biden-Harris administration had created,” the report concluded.

At least 11 hubs, including Chicago O’Hare, New York’s JFK, and Boston Logan faced pressure to temporarily house hundreds of migrants in their facilities — including auxiliary buildings and plane hangars.

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Privately, officials raised concerns about the Biden administration’s push.

“We have received a request from the WH to determine if there are available facilities on airport or surrounding areas… This is an immediate ask so please prioritize this effort,” a Federal Aviation Administration official wrote in an Oct. 6, 2023, missive to Massport, which runs Logan, per the report.

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Massport responded to DOT officials by warning: “We are not designed or resourced to manage the intake of migrant populations.”

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Biden administration officials waved off those concerns. At its peak, Logan held up to 352 migrants overnight in Terminal E, causing Massport to shell out $779,000 in “supplemental public safety, transportation, and janitorial services expenses.” Out in Chicago, conditions were a more dramatic, with authorities fielding 329 service calls and arresting more than two dozen migrants on charges of disorderly conduct, theft, and other offenses between April 2023 and February 2024.

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