'Complete failure': Top GOP senator demands full report on migrants entering US, boarding flights without ID

FIRST ON FOX: The Biden administration is facing unit from a apical U.S. Senator to let the afloat unredacted interior watchdog study that elaborate however officials person released migrants into the U.S. without ID and allowed them to question connected home flights.

"These caller findings successful the DHS OIG study further exemplify the Biden-Harris administration’s implicit nonaccomplishment of enactment to unafraid our borders and decently vet and place noncitizens entering the U.S.," Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., said successful a missive to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. "These failures person enactment our nationalist information astatine superior risk."

Grassley wrote successful respect to a DHS Office of Inspector General study that recovered that DHS agencies person allowed noncitizens to participate the U.S. and committee flights without confirming their identity.

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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa  (Photo by Susan Walsh/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

The study recovered that CBP and ICE judge self-reported biographical information, which they usage to springiness migrants migration forms. The migrants tin past get connected home flights, adjacent if they bash not person identification.

The IG added that "immigration officers we interviewed acknowledged the risks of allowing noncitizens without ID into the country."

Several portions of the study are heavy redacted, peculiarly wherever TSA conducted assessments connected the risks of utilizing the CBP One cellphone app arsenic a screening tool.

The results of the assessments are not disclosed successful the report.

"This is different illustration of the Biden-Harris DHS’s nonaccomplishment to beryllium transparent with Congress and the American people," Grassley said. "These redactions rise important questions astir what the medication is trying to fell astir the imaginable risks to our nationalist information posed by its usage of the CBP One app and program."

Grassley is seeking a afloat unredacted transcript of the report, arsenic good arsenic accusation connected however galore noncitizens were allowed into the U.S. without confirming their identities, however galore were high-risk and however galore were allowed to alert connected home flights.

DHS has pushed backmost against the report, calling its conclusions inaccurate.

"OIG’s study contains inaccurate statements, lacks important context, and is misleading astir the Department’s efforts to verify the individuality of noncitizens seeking introduction into the United States and screening noncitizens flying domestically," the bureau said successful response. "OIG’s study besides does not bespeak argumentation and procedural updates DHS implemented this twelvemonth to amended information successful accordance with TSA’s mean hazard appraisal process."

The bureau says that vetting is simply a point-in-time check, with each individuals being vetted against aggregate databases, including Interpol Notices and the panic ticker list. 

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The bureau says that each travelers, including migrants, indispensable contiguous an acceptable signifier of ID to participate unafraid areas of an airport. Those who bash not person ID are subjected to further screening.

"If noncitizens bash not person an acceptable ID and bash not taxable to facial designation technology, they volition beryllium denied introduction into the unafraid areas of the airdrome and volition beryllium denied boarding. If TSA cannot lucifer their individuality to DHS records, they volition besides beryllium denied introduction into the unafraid areas of the airdrome and volition beryllium denied boarding," the bureau said.

It besides emphasized that CBP One and DHS records are not considered acceptable forms of ID, and that facial designation done utilizing the app is abstracted from the appointment-scheduling function.

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But the study marks the latest interest from Republicans astir the entry of migrants into the U.S. and whether the vetting that is taking spot is effective. Multiple lawmakers person repeatedly expressed fears astir migrants getting connected planes without ID, and who is being released into the U.S.

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"This administration’s actions – and deficiency thereof – talk volumes: President Biden and Vice President Harris bash not attraction to enforce our laws that accidental it’s amerciable for noncitizens to participate our state without due identification," Grassley said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "The findings successful this autarkic watchdog study are yet different reminder America is little harmless nether their watch. My oversight is demanding factual answers connected what DHS is doing to hole the lax screening practices putting radical successful harm’s way."

Fox News' Bill Melugin and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.