Says 326,000 migrants were flown to Florida with taxpayer dollars under President Joe Biden’s secret migrant flight program.

"Fox & Friends First" said that these flights were not paid for by taxpayers. The migrants who flew to the U.S. did so as part of a parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that is meant to reduce the number of migrants crossing the southern U.S. border. The U.S. grants parole based on "significant public benefit or urgent humanitarian reasons."

People coming through the program are lawfully entering the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security publicly introduced the program in October 2022, initially for 24,000 Venezuelans.

 

 According to a fact-check by PolitiFact, migrants in the parole program do not receive free flights to the U.S. Instead, a parole program for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela requires that they pay for their own flights to the U.S. . The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analysis mentioned in the claim reveals that 326,000 migrants from these countries arrived in Florida