A Haitian man who was allowed to travel to and be released into the United States through a closely monitored federal program has been arrested in Massachusetts on suspicion of sexually abusing a minor.
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melgin first reported that Mansfield police arrested 18-year-old Akim Mark Desire for the crime. Desire flew to Miami on June 4, 2023, taking advantage of the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan parole program, which allows individuals of these nationalities to avoid illegally crossing the southern border by having a sponsor in the United States.
The victim of Desire's alleged assault is a 10-year-old boy who lives nearby. Desire is currently in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Instead of eliminating a clearly flawed program, the department is allowing it to continue.”
Melgin noted that this is the second time in recent months that a Haitian who was admitted to the U.S. under the CHNV program has been charged with child sex crimes in Massachusetts.
About 500,000 people have avoided the southern border and entered the U.S. directly since the CHNV program began in early 2023. The program was suspended in August. mass Fraudulent activities by applicants and sponsors were discovered.
Examples of fraudulent activity included the reuse of Social Security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers hundreds of times, as well as 100,948 forms filled out by 3,218 consecutive sponsors, including phone numbers of deceased individuals.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently announced it would resume the process with new safeguards to prevent fraud.
“It is not surprising that the Biden-Harris Administration hastily resumed the illegal CHNV mass release program despite evidence of clear fraud in the program. The CHNV program, along with the use of the CBP One app at the southwest border, is helping the president and border agents play a massive shell game, encouraging otherwise inadmissible aliens to simply cross the border at ports of entry rather than traveling between ports of entry,” said House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.). statement.
“Instead of eliminating a clearly flawed program, DHS is allowing it to continue without rooting out the fraud or putting in place adequate safeguards to prevent exploitation by sponsors within the United States. But fundamentally, if DHS would just stop importing 30,000 inadmissible aliens each month in the first place, there would be no fraud to prevent,” he added.
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