Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are demanding an explanation from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over what they say are “massive fraud” in the administration’s immigration parole process.
This month, Biden and Harris’ Department of Homeland Security was forced to shut down the parole pipeline, known as the CHNV program, after reports of widespread fraud after hundreds of thousands of migrants were allowed into the U.S. through the program.
The CHNV program, which gives migrants advance permission to travel to the United States, has accepted about 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans since January 2023.
Reps. Mark Green (R-TN), Clay Higgins (R-LA), and Dan Bishop (R-NC) I’m asking now They have asked Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to provide documents and information about widespread misconduct the department has uncovered in the parole process.
“According to an internal report obtained by the public interest group, a State Department investigation recently uncovered significant amounts of fraud in the applications of potential CHNV program sponsors,” the lawmakers wrote.
According to reports, an internal investigation by the department found that 100 addresses were listed on parole application documents, with each address listed between 124 and 739 times, totaling more than 19,000 documents. The internal investigation also found that 2,839 sponsorship forms contained non-existent postal codes. 4,590 applications contained alien file numbers that had never been issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The report concluded that 100,948 forms were completed by 3,218 consecutive sponsors (sponsors who appeared on 20 or more forms). [Emphasis added]
The lawmakers note that the House Homeland Security Committee was briefed on DHS’s parole pipeline suspensions on Aug. 5, but officials “refused to provide clear answers to staff questions about DHS’s ongoing suspensions and reviews of CHNV parole sponsors.”
“Specifically, State Department’s Lois Murray and USCIS’s Avide Mousavian failed to adequately answer even basic questions, such as confirmation of the dates parole proceedings were suspended, the fraud indicators the State Department uses to vet sponsors, the sponsorship thresholds that raise fraud concerns, the State Department’s plan for tracking upcoming parole expiration dates, or the current backlog of CHNV travel authorizations awaiting State Department approval,” the lawmakers wrote.
The lawmakers are seeking documents and information about the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to halt the parole pipeline and the reports of fraud and misconduct that prompted it. They have given Mayorkas until Aug. 27 to respond to the request.
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