When it was discovered that the migrants’ sponsors were committing massive fraud rather than the migrants themselves, the Department of Homeland Security halted the program last month.
Applications to sponsor the migrants contained fraud, according to an internal DHS study.
In order to identify and stop fraud and abuse in our immigration procedures, DHS has review systems in place. A DHS official stated, “DHS takes any misuse of its protocols extremely seriously.” U.S. ICE will refer the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution when it detects fraud, and it will also investigate and prosecute relevant instances in immigration court.
“DHS has temporarily stopped issuing advanced travel authorizations to new beneficiaries while it reviews all applications with extreme caution. DHS promised to promptly resume processing applications while implementing the necessary security measures.
What kind of “fraud” and misuse of procedures did they find?
Fox News:
“In some cases, the internal study discovered that social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers on application forms from program applicants were used hundreds of times.”
“A portion of the information that the conservative immigration organization Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) provided with Fox News Digital revealed that 3,218 serial sponsors—those whose number appears on 20 or more applications—filled out 100,948 forms.”
“Furthermore, we found that 24 of the 1,000 most popular numbers belonged to deceased individuals. In the meantime, almost 19,000 forms utilized 100 physical addresses between 124 and 739 times. Storage units were located at those addresses. According to the leak, 2,839 applications had sponsor zip codes that did not exist, and over 2,000 forms had only one sponsor phone number.”
The DHS certifies on a pile of bibles that the CHNV recipients have been “thoroughly screened and vetted before their entry into the United States.”
The spokeswoman clarified that the multi-layered screening and vetting for advanced travel authorizations differs from the screening of supporters residing in the United States. The spokeswoman stated that DHS has not discovered any significant issues with beneficiary screening and vetting.
So they’re stating that the migrants are honest and would never consider working with dishonest sponsors to enter the country, even when the sponsors are defrauding DHS by providing the American government with false information about who the beneficiaries are?
I call BS on that.
FAIR spokeswoman Ira Mehlman told Fox News Digital, “This is an indicator that the government was eager to cut every corner and compromise public safety in order to bring in as many illegal aliens as they could.”
The CHNV migrants, however, are not “illegal.” Biden extended an invitation. Their two-year work visa allows them to remain in the United States. They got into the country legitimately.
The issue lies in the program’s flagrant misuse of Congressional power. The goal of immigration parole was to close some loopholes in the system so that those with legitimate humanitarian needs could enter the country with far less red tape. Embracing 30,000 immigrants from four nations per month is a heinous misuse of congressional power. Republicans once debated whether Biden’s misuse of authority warranted his impeachment due to such an initiative.
It is absurd to think that these migrants have all undergone the necessary screening and vetting. Republicans ought to make legislative efforts to terminate this program.
