by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2024 Real World News
Some 531,000 illegal immigrants have entered the U.S. via a Biden-Harris program that is rife with fraud and may be facilitating sex trafficking, a House committee said in a shocking new report.
The parole program for nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) has been an "unmitigated disaster," the House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement said in the Nov. 20 report.
Up to 30,000 illegal aliens are entering the U.S. via the CHNV program each month.
These illegals, who the report said "otherwise have no basis to enter the country," have a "supporter" in the United States who vouches for them so they can bypass the U.S. border and fly directly into the country on commercial flights to be granted parole for a period of two years by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The CHNV program is one of the so-called "lawful pathways" for illegals to enter the U.S. the Biden-Harris administration created without approval of Congress, the report said.
The CHNV parole program "is plagued by so much fraud that DHS itself was forced to pause the program in July 2024," the Judiciary report said. "An internal DHS report on the CHNV parole program found, among other major problems with supporter applications, that 'forms from those applying for the program included social security numbers, addresses[,] and phone numbers being used hundreds of times in some cases.' Nonetheless, despite this documented evidence of fraud, the Biden-Harris Administration announced in late August 2024 that it would restart the program.
The CHNV supporter must file a Form I-134A, Online Request to be a Supporter and Declaration of Financial Support (Form I-134A) with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and must agree “to provide [the CHNV beneficiary] with financial support for the duration of their parole in the United States.” The CHNV alien then arrives at a U.S. airport where a DHS official paroles the alien into the country. Once paroled, the alien can apply for a work permit.
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According to the report, the many problems with the program include:
• USCIS has approved CHNV supporters even when the supporter submitted fraudulent documents as a part of the supporter application.
• USCIS has approved CHNV supporters who admitted that the income they plan to use to support the CHNV alien includes income derived from criminal activity.
• USCIS has approved CHNV supporters who admitted to receiving means-tested public benefits as part of their income listed as evidence that they can support a CHNV alien. Thus, American taxpayers may actually end up supporting CHNV aliens despite Biden-Harris Administration claims that those aliens will have supporters in the U.S.
• USCIS has refused to tell the Committee whether it has any mechanism or remedy to ensure that CHNV supporters fulfill their agreement to provide the CHNV alien financial support during the time for which the alien is paroled in the U.S. If the approved supporter does not financially support the CHNV alien, that burden will fall to American taxpayers.
• USCIS has confirmed CHNV supporters who are aliens in the United States on a short-term basis and who are subject to removal from the U.S. at any time, such as aliens on temporary visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients, and even parolees themselves. As a result, CHNV is a supercharged chain migration program in which foreign nationals in the U.S. on a temporary basis can sponsor additional foreign nationals to travel to the U.S. on a temporary basis, who can then sponsor additional foreign nationals to enter the country, and so on.
• USCIS has approved CHNV applications to allow aliens into the country who do not even reside in one of the four CHNV countries.
• Sex traffickers have potentially used CHNV to exploit women and girls. A fraud analysis of CHNV applications revealed that some applications that were sent from the same IP addresses were submitted on behalf of a high proportion of female CHNV aliens. In one such case, 21 supporter applications were submitted from the same IP address on behalf of 18 females and only three males. At least six of the females were under the age of 18.
