According to New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino, planes carrying migrants from the southern border to New York state are continuing.
Previously, the Biden Administration confirmed reporting by the New York Post that people were being flown to airports in the state “en route to their final destination to be reunified with their parents or vetted sponsor.”
The Post says migrant flights into Westchester County Airport have ratcheted up in recent weeks to almost one per night, and now New York Stewart International Airport in the Hudson Valley has been added as a destination.
“It’s just an expansion of this program and a second airport no one thought they would go through, either to be clandestine or because of a need for another runway,” says Astorino.
The former Air Force base in Newburgh is a New York Port Authority airport.
As with the flights into Westchester, the majority of migrants appear to be Hispanic males in their late teens or early 20s.
Astorino’s footage shows passengers boarding waiting chartered buses, which have had their company insignia covered over.
The planes landing at Stewart were operated by Omni Air International, an airline not previously associated with migrant flights. It joins World Atlantic Airways, Avelo and iAero carrying passengers to New York from the Texas and the Arizona border.
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The Post says it has has tracked buses from Westchester to the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Newburgh plus Bridgeport and Danbury in Connecticut.
The Border Patrol reported a record 234,088 migrants crossed the southern border in April, up from 221,444 in March. Meanwhile, a caravan currently heading north through Mexico could become the largest ever to reach the U.S. southern border. Its numbers have been estimated at close to 10,000.