The Government Accountability Office (GAO) — Congress’s non-partisan watchdog — just issued a report with the anodyne caption “DHS Identified Fraud Risks in Parole Processes for Noncitizens and Should Assess Lessons Learned”. Skip the headline and you’ll realize what happens when an administration prioritizes speed over security in an effort to move as many aliens without visas or any right to enter into the United States as quickly as possible.
“U4U”, “CHNV”, and “Family Reunification”
That report focuses on three so-called “humanitarian parole” programs implemented under Biden: one for Ukrainians displaced following the Russian invasion of that European country (“Uniting for Ukraine” or “U4U”); the second for would-be illegal migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (“CHNV Parole”); and the third for beneficiaries of approved immigrant visas but no way to immigrate for years (“family reunification”).
To make those programs politically palatable, the Biden administration made them “supporter-based”; that is, it required would-be beneficiaries of those programs to find supporters in this country to provide for them, and most (but not all) the fraud associated with those programs related to those supporters.
Even as those three humanitarian parole programs were implemented, the Center identified vulnerabilities in each of them. Not that anybody in the Biden White House or DHS bothered to listen.
For example, in August 2023 I analyzed CHNV parole and explained why it was “ripe for human exploitation” by the aforementioned “sponsors”.
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