First on Fox: The impact of the surge in immigration Sanctuary city AIRPORT New information provided to the Senate committee reveals the handling of the Biden-era immigration crisis.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman R-Texas Senator Ted Cruz has been called recently Massachusetts Port Authority For documents on the committee’s Republicans last year requested the use of facilities to allow immigrants to asylum at the Logan International Airport in Boston.
As immigrants landed in sanctuary cities such as Boston, immigrants have been seen camping at airports at the height of the Biden-era crisis.
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Senator Ted Cruz (Eric Lee/Bloomberg by Getty Images)
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In Massport’s response to the committee, obtained by Fox News Digital Agency, the Port Authority estimated that between July 2023 and July 2024, more than 5,000 immigrants arrived in Logan.
“ … Massport estimates that 5,500 immigrants flew to Logan Airport during this period Unprecedented arrival The agency said in response to questions.
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On the top of the hill, 352 immigrants live in a 4,100-foot dock area at Logan Airport. Every morning, the immigrants are taken to the state center, although some return and stay there.
As for the amount of stay costs, authorities estimate the cost per day to be $2,520, and the total cost of additional staffing, services and transportation is about $779,000. The average number of overnight immigrants is less than 100 between July and November 2023, but the highest daily averages in the following months are April (181), May (265) and June (262).
Officials said this did not reduce the airport’s capacity, “all actions are taken under federal and state laws to enable traveling publics to provide safe, safe, efficient and orderly airport operations.”
Immigrants sleep on the floor of Logan Airport. (David L. Ryan/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Officials also said there is no fee for taxpayers. Instead, most of the fees were absorbed by Massport, while the $332,000 extra fees were transferred to the airline, and “no time the airport facility became housing for immigrants.”
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They further pointed out that immigration had “sometimes secondary conflicts”, but no one needed arrest or criminal charges.
Ultimately, the use of the airport was banned as a shelter and received taxpayer-funded accommodation in July 2024.
“As of July 9, 2024, the state announced a policy change that immigrant families can no longer spend the night in Logan and no family has remained at the airport since then,” a Massport spokesman said. “We are working closely with the committee to cooperate fully voluntarily at their request.”
Councillors initially requested information from Massport last year, believing that the use of facilities to accommodate immigrants violated the conditions for federal funding.
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