Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced the restart of a plan that will allow migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti into the US. This program was previously suspended by his own administration over fraud concerns.
According to the DHS, the government will conduct “additional vetting” of the US-based sponsor of the potential immigrants to enhance transparency and integrity in the program.
President Joe Biden announced the CHNV Parole Program in January 2023, under which specific immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela were allowed to enter the United States, an effort that critics believe was nothing more than a part of Biden’s open border agenda.
Up to 30,000 immigrants will be allowed to come and settle in the United States every month, and they will also be able to apply for work permits. They will, however, have to enter the US through a legal port of entry, such as an airport, and cannot come through the US-Mexico border.
Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers have slammed Biden for resuming the program. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Mark Green, stated that Biden and his “border czar’ Kamala Harris, are promoting this mass-parole program unlawfully. He added that such policies have paved the way for otherwise “inadmissible” aliens to enter the US.
Green went on to say that his House committee has remained in contact with the DHS since the controversial policy was paused under fraud concerns, adding that the government is now resuming the program without proper protocols and lack of oversight on the US-based sponsors who can exploit the immigrants for their advantage.
The DHS paused the program recently after reports emerged that thousands of US-based sponsors exploited the program by sponsoring immigrants en masse.
Almost 3,218 serial sponsors filled out the forms of 100,948 potential immigrants, with some sponsors filling out more than 20 forms under their names. Similarly, the same social security numbers and addresses were used repeatedly in the immigration applications.
Green’s committee reported that almost 520,000 immigrants have entered the United States under this program through 50 different airports across the country and managed to get DHS clearance.
In October last year, the DHS submitted internal documents to the House committee, which noted that 1.6 million immigrants were awaiting entry into the US under the program. Had this CHNV program not been in place, all of them would have been ineligible to immigrate to America.
Some shocking reports from June also revealed that people from these four countries have been flying to the United States from some vacation wonderlands, such as Brazil, the UK, Australia, and Hong Kong.
Border security and mass immigration are among the major issues likely to shape voters’ opinions in the November elections.
