Senator Marion Michael Rounds has praised Donald Trump for securing the border. But this week Trump didn’t just bend his own rules for as fugitive from justice Flávio Bolsonaro; the Trump Administration arranged the private jet that helped the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate cross our border without proper documents:
Bolsonaro and his family were able to come to the United States on a special kind of parole usually reserved for “urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,” after he apparently showed Homeland Security an expired diplomatic passport. His next step will be applying for a green card, a process which an administration official said will be fast-tracked in a manner similar to his brother Eduardo, who was granted permanent residency last year.
Bolsonaro flew from Argentina to Ecuador before finally landing in Miami—and he did it all on a private jet handled by Jason Miller, a White House communications official, an unnamed administration official told the Times [Malcolm Ferguson, “Trump Team Arranged Private Jet to Help Bolsonaro Flee Brazil,” The New Republic, 2026.10.29].
Most illegal immigrants have to swim the Rio Grande and hike the desert to get here, and then they have to bust their chops chingling our roofs and milking our cows while hiding out from law enforcement. But the Trump Administration saw this illegal immigrant coming and gave him a lift on a private jet to relax in plain sight in Miami.