First on FOX: R-Texas Rep. Marcus Luttrell has introduced legislation required by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report crimes committed by individuals hospitalized in the United States under the controversial Biden-era immigration policy.
“If we're serious about securing our country, we need to know exactly what we're against,” Luttrell told Fox News Digital.
The bill, called the Criminal Illegal Foreigners Reporting Act, requires DHS to provide Congress with reports of crimes committed by people committed by people hospitalized in the United States for the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) program.
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Rep. Morgan Luttrell, split image of R-Texas and the southern US border. (Getty Images)
The controversial CHNV program, implemented under the Biden administration in 2022, initially allowed asylum seekers in Venezuela to be paroleed to the United States for up to two years if anyone agreed to support them financially. Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua were added to the list of supported countries in 2023, allowing 30,000 people from four countries to enter the United States per month.
The Biden administration touted the program's success by reducing the number of individuals attempting to illegally cross the US southern border on land, but the total number of migrants entering the country did not slow down.
Then-President Joe Biden speaks to members of the U.S. Border Patrol on January 8, 2023, while walking along the US Mexican border fence in El Paso, Texas. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
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The program was further scrutinized when Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national paroched by the US under CHNV in 2022, attacked and eventually killed University of Georgia student Laiken Riley.
President Donald Trump closed the program in an executive order on his first day in office, but Luttrell noted that more than 50,000 people have been paroled to the United States at airport ports across the country.
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Luttrell also pointed out that in addition to Riley Murder, another CHNV beneficiary was arrested in 2024 after being accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in Virginia.
“The bill I've introduced gives Congress the harsh facts we need to work with the Trump administration, strengthening our security and making sure people who threaten our community are stopped at their trucks,” Luttrell said. “Protecting Americans must be our number one priority.”
