The House Republican caucus joined Democrats in maintaining funding for President Joe Biden’s parole plan to fly hundreds of thousands of migrants into the United States.
On Wednesday, 13 Republicans Voted He worked with 205 Democrats to block an amendment from Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget bill that would have cut funding for Biden’s parole program.
Known as the CHNV program, the pipeline would allow migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to book their own flights in their home countries and fly to a U.S. airport to secure what’s known as “humanitarian parole” after being vetted by the federal government.
The 13 Republicans are:
- Congressman Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY)
- Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
- Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN)
- Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (Republican, Pennsylvania)
- Congressman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY)
- Congressman Carlos Gimenez (R-FL)
- Rep. Jennifer Gonzalez Colon (Republican, Territory)
- Congressman Thomas Kean (Republican, New Jersey)
- Congressman Young Kim (R-CA)
- Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY)
- Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY)
- Congressman Maria Salazar (R-FL)
- Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY)
Through the CHNV program, Biden has brought nearly 500,000 immigrants to the U.S. As of October last year, about 2 million immigrants were in the country. waiting Permission to fly into the interior of the United States to secure parole.
“By running this patently illegal mass parole program, Biden and [DHS Secretary Alejandro] “Mayorkas continues to flout our laws,” Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said of the parole plan.
“…” [T]”The simple fact is that Biden and Mayorkas want to import more admissible aliens into the United States because they believe it serves their political interests to do so, not to protect people who are legitimately being persecuted in their home countries,” Green said.
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