Biden administration took office Over 400,000 immigrants According to monthly updates From Customs and Border Protection.
The administration’s Department of Homeland Security announced earlier. new process Allows citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to apply to come to the United States “in a safe and orderly manner.”
Individuals will be considered on a case-by-case basis and must already have a support person in the country. They must also submit to a “clear and robust security vetting” process and “ensure the favorable exercise of discretion,” according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.
Supporters can be other refugees or asylum seekers. They must demonstrate “sufficient financial resources to accommodate, retain, and support the individual pledging their assistance during the period of their stay in the United States.”
Immediate family members of recipients, including spouses and children under 21, are also eligible for the program, regardless of their nationality.
According to CBP, the CHNV process “builds on the success of the process for Venezuelans established in October 2022.”
“This is part of the administration’s strategy to combine expanded legal channels with stronger consequences to reduce illegal immigration and deter hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants,” CBP’s website states. it is written like this.
“By the end of March 2024, 404,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans have legally arrived on commercial flights and been granted parole under these procedures.” “Specifically, 86,000 Cubans, 168,000 Haitians, 77,000 Nicaraguans, 102,000 Venezuelans were screened and allowed to travel, 84,000 Cubans, 154,000 Haitians, 69,000 Nicaraguans and 95,000 Venezuelans entered the country legally and were granted parole. ”
The DHS website states that beneficiaries will be granted “temporary parole for up to two years for urgent humanitarian reasons or in the vital public interest.”
A lawsuit filed by the Center for Immigration Studies revealed in March that CBP had approved flights for hundreds of thousands of immigrants to 43 airports in the United States from January to December 2023. blaze news Previously reported. All beneficiaries were pre-approved on CBP’s mobile CBP One app, CIS said.
The Biden administration has refused to say which U.S. airports the migrants will fly into, citing the risk of exposing their “vulnerabilities.”
“The Biden administration’s legally dubious plan to transport inadmissible aliens directly across the border to U.S. airports will prevent ‘bad actors’ from using it to harm public safety.” , the vulnerabilities of law enforcement agencies are said to be too severe to be publicly disclosed,” the CIS said. .
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, accused the Biden administration of sending migrants in by plane. artificially reduce The number of migrants encountered at the southern border. He called the program a “bait and switch.”
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