According to information obtained by The Washington Post, the Biden administration will halt the program that has already brought about 500,000 migrants into the United States from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela due to widespread fraud allegations.
In mid-July, the Department of Homeland Security suspended advance clearance for the humanitarian parole program, which had been accepting 30,000 migrants from those countries each month for more than a year and a half. Fox News.
“Out of an abundance of caution, the Department of Homeland Security has temporarily suspended the issuance of advance travel authorizations to new beneficiaries while it reviews their applications,” a spokesperson told the Post.
“The Department of Homeland Security will resume processing applications as soon as possible with appropriate safeguards in place,” the spokesperson said, adding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement “will investigate and litigate appropriate cases in immigration court and file criminal charges with the Department of Justice.”
The suspension of immigration took effect on July 6 for Venezuelans and July 18 for other countries after an internal Department of Homeland Security report found that thousands of migrant sponsors had provided fake Social Security numbers and phone numbers, potentially resulting in a large-scale fraud operation that resulted in deaths, Fox News reported.
According to the documents, an investigation conducted by a lower-level agency, Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), also found that “many applications had the same address listed,” “approximately 100 addresses listed on more than 19,000 forms,” and “many applications had been submitted from the same IP address.” Obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (fair).
According to FAIR, an IP address in Tijuana, Mexico, was used 1,328 times, and other fraudulent activities included entering “the exact same answers on immigration forms for hundreds of applications,” with “in some cases, the same answers being used by more than 10,000 applicants.”
“This damning internal report further confirms that the Biden-Harris Administration’s sole focus when it comes to illegal immigration is to get as many people into the country as possible by any means necessary, even at the risk of putting our national security at risk,” said FAIR President Dan Stein.
“The CHNV program was established without congressional authorization and violates statutory requirements that parole be granted only when there is a clear national interest or humanitarian purpose,” Stein said.
Humanitarian parole for Venezuelans will begin in October 2022, allowing tens of thousands of migrants to enter the United States and work for two years, provided that each is vetted, has a sponsor and has not previously attempted to enter the country illegally.
Three months later, the Biden administration expanded the program to include Haitians, Nicaraguans and Cubans, with Miami, Fort Lauderdale and New York City becoming the top three destinations for parolees.
Since then, more than 400,000 people have entered the U.S. on parole, “probably…” [be] According to former ICE Director Tom Homan, “they can’t stay here forever,” given the legal avenues they have to maintain permanent residence.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., in a statement Friday called for an immediate end to the so-called “CHNV” program.
“This certification by the Biden-Harris Administration vindicates all the warnings we’ve been making about the illegal CHNV mass parole program and exposes how administration officials, like impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas, have lied about the quality and scope of the vetting procedures not only for unauthorized aliens seeking entry, but also for those seeking to sponsor them,” Green said.
“We issued subpoenas last year to compel documents related to this program, and while DHS has partially complied, the department continues to fail to turn over certain documents and communications related to the program,” he added.
“This is exactly what happens when an administration creates an illegal mass parole program in order to avoid political embarrassment and bad looks across the border.”
In March, Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told The Washington Post that the parole program was a “bait-and-switch tactic designed by the Biden administration to make the border look less out of control.”
“They’re just releasing them at the airport, not letting them through the border,” Judd said, predicting “an amnesty program will be in place down the line” to accommodate the millions who have entered the country since the president took office in January 2021.
Since 2022, the administration has denied at least 350,000 asylum applications on immigration court dockets across the country unless the immigrants have criminal records.
“CHNV beneficiaries are thoroughly screened and vetted prior to their arrival in the United States,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told The Post in a statement.
“The multi-layered screening and vetting process for advance travel authorization is separate from the screening of beneficiaries in the United States,” the spokesperson said. “Homeland Security has not identified any concerns regarding the screening and vetting of beneficiaries.”
