Biden Admin’s Mass-Parole Program ‘Was Ripe from the Beginning to Be Abused’

The Biden-Harris administration’s Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua (CHNV) mass-parole program has been temporarily put on hold due to a report that raised “concerns about widespread fraud.” Under this White House, the “unlawful” program allows up to 30,000 migrants from the four countries to come into the U.S. each month. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said they made the decision to pause the program “out of an abundance of caution,” but Fox News’s Adam Shaw took the time to emphasize the concerns in greater detail.

He recently reported, “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.” Additionally, “100,948 forms were filled out by 3,218 serial sponsors — those whose number appears on 20 or more forms. It also found that 24 of the 1,000 most used numbers belonged to a dead person. Meanwhile, 100 physical addresses were used between 124 and 739 times on over 19,000 forms.”

House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) also expressed his concerns in a statement released Friday. “This admission by the Biden-Harris administration vindicates every warning we have ever issued about the unlawful CHNV mass-parole program,” he wrote. “It also exposes the lie by administration officials, like now-impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas, about the quality and extent of the vetting process — not just for the inadmissible aliens seeking entry, but those attempting to sponsor them.” Green noted that they “issued a subpoena last year to compel documents regarding” the program. And “while DHS partially complied,” he added, “the department remains delinquent in producing certain documents and communications relating to the program.”

According to Green, “This is exactly what happens when you create an unlawful mass-parole program in order to spare your administration the political embarrassment and bad optics of overrun borders. The Biden-Harris administration should terminate the CHNV program immediately.”

“It’s just stunning what’s ... going on,” said guest host and former Congressman Jody Hice on Monday’s episode of “Washington Watch.” He added that many people “have raised suspicions that this program ... was ripe from the beginning to be abused.” And now, there’s “an audit [that] has actually proven that these suspicions and concerns all along were, in fact, true.”

It “definitely turned out to be what we all thought it was,” added Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), who joined the discussion. “It was corrupt from the very beginning,” he emphasized, and “the Biden-Harris administration have used every single tool imaginable and available to them, manipulating, bypassing every law in the books to funnel illegal aliens into our great country, our beloved country.”

According to Babin, DHS has “even admitted that these individuals ... do not have a legal basis to enter our country before being paroled through this program,” which only adds to the controversial nature of the program. In addition to grappling with the immense fraud taking place, Hice asked, “[W]hat do we do with all these people who are here illegally?” As he went on to point out, “They came here not only illegally, but [they are now] abusing the situation. And the Biden administration is helping all that happen.” Babin agreed, stating, “[T]hey’re sucking us dry.”

He continued, “We’re spending billions of dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money to medicate, incarcerate, [and] to educate these people that are coming in. And quite frankly, many of these [migrants] are victimizing innocent Americans through violent crime [and] through gang activity.” And for those claiming the border crisis is not actually severe, or that Democrats are doing more than Republicans, Babin urged, “[D]on’t go by what they say. Go by what they do.”

He added, “[T]hey want to make it look like they’re doing something that is effective and they’re not. All this is a show. Don’t take this hook, line, and sinker,” because “they’re hoping that people will just take their word for it.”

In terms of fixing these problem areas, Babin argued that the presidential election coming up is “probably the most important election of our lifetimes. Maybe even the history of our country.” Because the outcome of this election, as Babin concluded, could be the difference of turning away from “wokeism” or going “back to freedom.”