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The Biden-Harris administration has reportedly restarted an immigration program that’s been found to be overrun with fraud.

The CHNV (Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans) parole program “allows up to 30,000 nationals from those four countries to enter the United States each month if sponsored by a person or entity inside the country,” according to Fox News.

The program was frozen over the summer after an internal Department of Homeland Security report found that it was overrun with fraud.

“The internal report found that forms from those applying for the program included social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers being used hundreds of times in some cases,” Fox News notes.

“[O]ver 100,000 sponsor application forms were filled out by just 3,218 sponsors. The same credentials were used over and over – hundreds of times in some cases. Twenty-four of the 1,000 most used numbers on sponsor application forms belonged to a dead person. Almost 3,000 forms used non-existent sponsor ZIP codes,” according to Fox News.

Despite all this fraud, DHS has restarted the CHNV program on the basis that new vetting processes have been installed.

“Those new procedures include further scrutiny of sponsors’ financial records and criminal backgrounds, bolstered reviews to identify serial filing trends, and a fingerprint requirement for all U.S.-based supporters,” according to NBC News.

But congressional Republicans are extremely doubtful.

“It should come as no surprise that the Biden-Harris administration has rushed to restart its unlawful CHNV mass-parole scheme, despite the clear evidence of fraud permeating the program,” House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, a Republican, said in a statement.

“The CHNV program, along with the use of the CBP One app at the Southwest border, has helped the president and his border czar play a massive shell game, encouraging otherwise-inadmissible aliens to simply cross at ports of entry instead of between them. My Committee has engaged with the department since this pause was announced, and the results were sobering,” he added.

“Instead of scrapping the clearly flawed program, the department is allowing it to continue without rooting out the fraud or putting adequate safeguards in place to prevent exploitation by sponsors here in the United States. But fundamentally, there would be no fraud to prevent if DHS simply stopped importing 30,000 inadmissible aliens every month in the first place,” Green concluded.

Writing for Fox News, Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer likewise warned that allowing the program to continue “will harm everyone involved.”

“The reckless restart of the CHNV program will harm everyone involved – it’s not the idealistic pro-immigrant solution the administration sells it as,” she wrote. “I joined Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, recently in sending a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling for an end to the program.”

“We explained how the program violates congressional intent, invites fraud through its inadequate vetting system, and poses national security risks. In response, the Biden-Harris administration must go above and beyond canceling this faulty program. President Biden and “Border Czar” Harris must take action to fix the border and immigration crisis they’ve created – including by stopping their unlawful abuse of parole,” she added.

But why has the Biden-Harris administration rushed to restart the program in the first place? The reasons seem political.

“The Biden administration has been eager to restart the program because it believes allowing migrants to apply legally has contributed to the sharp drop in illegal border crossings from Mexico into the U.S.,” according to NBC News.

And so the program makes it seem like the Biden administration has secured the border when in reality it hasn’t. Migrants are still streaming across the border, except they’re now doing so legally via a system that’s been shown to be riddled with fraud.

All this comes months out from a presidential election between current Vice President Kamala Harris, a supporter of illegal migration, and former President Donald Trump, a staunch opponent of it.

Vivek Saxena
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