The illegal immigrant accused of shooting an off-duty border officer in a Manhattan park was only vetted using Zoom before being released into the US under the Biden administration, The Post has learned.
Dominican Republic national Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, waltzed across the US-Mexico border into Arizona in April 2023 — during the raging migrant crisis that saw federal agents take drastic measures in an attempt to free up resources.
That month alone, the US saw a wave of more than 183,000 migrants come across the southern border.
“The whole system was overwhelmed by what the Biden administration was allowing,” Charles Marino, former senior law enforcement advisor to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, told The Post.
“The end game was to facilitate the processing of as many illegals into the country as possible,” Marino said.
Overwhelmed Border Patrol agents recruited support from their colleagues up north at the US-Canada crossing, who interviewed illegal border crossers over Zoom to speed up their release, federal law enforcement sources said.
One Homeland Security source fumed that the virtual questioning “was a nightmare” and that it simply “can’t” ensure proper vetting.
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