The House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement released the following report: report Wednesday revealed rampant fraud and widespread abuse of the Biden-Harris administration's CHNV “humanitarian parole” program.
“Humanitarian parole” program This is an aggressive initiative launched by the Biden-Harris administration in January 2023 to allow 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to apply for admission to the United States each month. It allows legal stay for up to two years.
Prospective beneficiaries of the parole program must consider financial support from a U.S. citizen or “lawful permanent resident” who declares to act as a “sponsor.” The aforementioned sponsors are being vetted by U.S. authorities and must provide sufficient evidence and financial records to demonstrate their ability to support one or more potential beneficiaries.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), beneficiaries will undergo a “clear and robust security screening” before obtaining all necessary permits from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) before traveling to the United States.
The House Judiciary's report details that as of September, more than 531,000 people entered the United States through the Humanitarian Parole Program. The report found that of the approximately 3 million applications, approximately 760,000 were filed on behalf of Cuban nationals, approximately 1.5 million were filed on behalf of Haitian nationals, approximately 178,000 were filed on behalf of Nicaraguan nationals, and 430,000 were filed on behalf of Nicaraguan nationals. It notes that more than 2,300 cases have been filed on behalf of Venezuelan nationals.
The report reveals numerous instances of fraud discovered across applications by an analysis completed in May by DHS fraud detection experts, including those that share the same Social Security number, phone number, or email. Contains thousands of instances where addresses are used repeatedly in different supporter applications. The same textual answer to the question was also found in “1,800 similar applications by approximately 190 different CHNV supporters.” More than 2,800 beneficiary applications used more than 460 non-existent zip codes.
According to the report, USCIS also approved sponsorship applications from “aliens who are in the United States for a short period of time and may be removed from the United States at any time,” such as temporary visa holders, TPS recipients, and foreign nationals. That's what it means. This includes beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and even parole program beneficiaries themselves.
“In other words, the Biden-Harris Administration's CHNV program encourages a new form of chain migration, in which foreign nationals who are temporarily in the United States temporarily sponsor additional foreign nationals. “such as the admission of additional foreign nationals,'' the report states.
The report reveals that some applicants for USCIS approval submitted fraudulent documentation, and that some sponsors “received from criminal activity'' on income that was intended to be used to support beneficiaries. “It includes income.''
“This surveillance reveals how the Biden-Harris Administration's willingness to abandon the best interests of the American people has enabled fraud, undermined national security, and endangered public safety. , all to ensure that hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals could enter the country without being in the country illegally, “the United States through CHNV,'' the report concluded.
The report also revealed that the Biden-Harris administration has approved applications for more than 80,000 supporters who do not reside in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, or Venezuela. The program was said to be aimed at benefiting victims of the authoritarian Castro, Maduro and Ortega regimes and Haitians fleeing their country's out-of-control gang violence.
Most alarming, the report found that sex traffickers potentially used parole programs to traffic women and girls into the United States.
“Fraud analysis of CHNV applications revealed that some applications submitted from the same IP address were submitted on behalf of a high proportion of female CHNV foreign nationals,” the report states. “In one such case, 21 supporter applications were submitted from the same IP address on behalf of 18 women and three men. At least six of the women were under the age of 18.”
Humanitarian parole brief filed due to rampant fraud accusations suspension In early August. Biden-Harris administration We have resumed program by the end of the month.
During the Biden-Harris administration announced In October, the program announced that it would not extend the legal status of its beneficiaries beyond a two-year period, so immigrants who entered the United States through the program reportedly They are directed to obtain legal status through other immigration programs, including Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and asylum.
Reports released in recent months have revealed that several members of Cuba's communist Castro regime have been allowed to enter and remain legally in the United States as beneficiaries of a humanitarian parole program.
Communist officials include Cuban Luis Raul González-Pardo Rodriguez pilot Associated with the 1996 murder of four Americans and Cuban Melody González Pedraza by the communist regime. judge He was accused of giving excessive prison sentences to peaceful Cuban dissidents. One of the nieces of Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz reportedly He will be accepted as a beneficiary of the “humanitarian parole” program in December 2023.
Marrero Cruz's son, Manuel Alejandro Marrero Medina, was also reportedly recognized as a beneficiary of the “humanitarian parole” program, but ultimately was not recognized as a beneficiary. rejected Flight permit required to enter the United States.
“Congress must act to address the massive influx of illegal immigration during the Biden-Harris administration and rein in the administration's dangerous and radical open border policies,” the House Judiciary Committee said in its report. It's clear,” he emphasized.
“The Biden-Harris administration's implementation of this program without considering fraud prevention, criminal activity, or its impact on American society shows that the administration is putting the best interests of undocumented immigrants ahead of the best interests of undocumented aliens. This is further evidence that we are prioritizing it.” Americans,” the report concluded.
Christian K. Caruso is a Venezuelan writer who chronicles life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
