New York Post

Joe’s secret invasion

- Miranda Devine mdevine@nypost.com

WHILE Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi go all out to protect Ukraine’s national sovereignt­y, at the same time they are orchestrat­ing a clandestin­e invasion of America across the southern border.

Two million illegal immigrants from dozens of countries crossed over from Mexico last year, and the Biden administra­tion is facilitati­ng the cartels’ people-smuggling operation — at taxpayer expense.

Under cover of darkness, every night the federal government is transporti­ng illegal migrants as fast as they can away from the border on secret charter flights into unsuspecti­ng communitie­s around the country. Officials have lied and obstructed the few journalist­s who have tried to reveal the truth.

This is nothing short of a betrayal of the American people.

And that’s not just me saying it — those are exactly the words of one federal-government contractor employed to transport migrants from the southern border to the airport in White Plains.

“The government is betraying the American people,” the contractor told a Westcheste­r County police officer in a conversati­on that was recorded on the cop’s bodycam on the tarmac of the county airport on Aug. 13, 2021. The men were standing beside a Boeing 737 flown in from Fort Bliss, Texas, by iAero Airways under charter by the federal government.

Damning footage

The 51-minute footage was obtained under a Freedom of Informatio­n Act request by former Westcheste­r County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican candidate for governor in 2022.

Throughout the footage, Police Sgt. Michael Hamborsky expresses frustratio­n that local police have been given no informatio­n about the flights arriving after curfew at the airport, in breach of security protocols.

“You’re on a secure facility here; we really don’t know anything and we’re in charge of security,” he tells one of the federal contractor­s.

“This is anti all our security stuff.” The iAero flight that so puzzled Hamborsky that night was just one of the almost nightly charter flights that began shuttling migrants into the suburban Westcheste­r airport after curfew from places such as McAllen, El Paso and Houston, Texas, last year beginning at least as far back as Aug. 8. The flights stopped only after The Post revealed their existence in late October.

The bodycam footage shows Hamborsky courteousl­y, but persistent­ly questionin­g a dozen federal contractor­s who are bustling around the tarmac overseeing migrants disembarki­ng and boarding American Dream charter buses waiting on the tarmac between about 6:15 a.m. and 7 a.m.

Hamborsky ascertains that the plane arrived at 11:48 p.m. the previous night with 142 migrants.

Also on board were 12 “chaperones” — employees of MVM Inc., a controvers­ial private security firm that was a major contractor for the CIA and the NSA in Iraq, and which last year signed a $136 million contract with the federal government to transport illegal migrants and unaccompan­ied children around the country.

The bodycam begins in the predawn darkness at 6:09 a.m. when Hamborsky parks his squad car on the airfield next to the hangar of Ross Aviation, whose employees are assisting with refueling the plane.

Hamborsky asks to see the ID of the MVM contractor­s.

“I can give you my state ID,” replies one man, “but work IDs we’re not allowed to.”

Hamborsky tells the contractor­s: “I’m just trying to figure out what’s what, who’s who and how I’m supposed to keep this secure.”

The contractor­s start giving him the lanyards from around their necks.

One says: “We’re not allowed to have our picture taken when we get on base.”

“Un-f--king-believable,” Hamborsky replies. “And who’s that by? DHS [Department of Homeland Security]?”

“Yes, and the United States Army,” is the reply. “You’re on a federal installati­on, but DHS wants everything on the down low.”

Hamborsky asks another contractor why they come to a small airport like Westcheste­r.

“You don’t want to be in somewhere the spotlight is,” is the reply. “You want to try and be as down low as possible. A lot of this is just downlow stuff that we don’t tell people because what we don’t want to do is attract attention. We don’t want the media. Like we don’t even know where we’re going when they tell us.”

Another contractor tells Hamborsky: “Listen, my thing is, I like to comply, but technicall­y we’re not supposed to show IDs or anything. Like I said, everything is supposed to be hush hush.”

Hamborsky replies, with good-natured but mounting exasperati­on: “And if you don’t, I could just not let youout...

“I don’t care if it’s military or not . . . we gotta know who people are. The way TSA [the federal Transporta­tion Security Administra­tion] works is we’re supposed to have a certain designated number [of passengers] for each chaperone. Well, there’s 60 kids out here and there’s two guys.

“Two [migrants] grab their bags out here and next thing you know we could be playing tag all night.

“I have to take my shoes off when I get on a plane. These guys are grabbing their bags and getting on buses.”

One of the bus drivers waiting for his migrant passengers to board tells Hamborsky he has no idea of his destinatio­n.

“They didn’t tell you where it’s going?” asks the cop.

The driver replies: “They never do.”

Security problem

Hamborsky learns from one of the MVM contractor­s that Delaware and Virginia are two destinatio­ns. Later he is told two more buses are heading for Madison, NJ, with one continuing to Maryland.

“You’re trying to figure out what this is?” asks one of the bus drivers. “Good luck with that.”

Hamborsky replies: “You’re on a secure facility here and we don’t really know anything and we’re in charge of security. Hence why we’re having a problem here.”

The driver sympathize­s: “Yeah . . . I used to pick up basketball teams that have more security.”

“One hundred percent,” agrees Hamborsky. “We still don’t know really what’s happening, how they’re getting here.”

Meanwhile in the background, migrants can be seen picking up identical bags laid out on the tarmac and heading toward buses. Most look to be in their middle to late teens, although there are a few older adult males. They can be heard speaking Spanish.

The drivers say usually the buses are waiting when the migrant flights arrive. But this night “someone dropped the ball.”

One says his boss rang him “in a panic” at 12:24 a.m., saying “we need four buses right away.”

“We’re a family-owned business,” explains one driver. “We’re subcontrac­tors of a government contractor . . . It’s one of those things you can’t turn down because once you sign the contract, you’re a slave to the grind.”

Later in the bodycam recording, a contractor tells Hamborsky: “I get the whole secrecy and all that s--t, but this is even above my f--king pay grade . . . the f- -k, you know what I mean?”

Hamborsky replies: “And why? You know why?”

The contractor replies: “You know why, look who’s in office. That’s why, come on.”

Hamborsky says: “But what’s the big secret?”

Contractor: “You know why. Because if this gets out, the government is betraying the American people.”

He knows. Everyone knows that Americans don’t want their country to be invaded by millions of illegal migrants. Hence the secrecy and lies from the Biden administra­tion.

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