For the past couple of years, the Biden/Harris administration has been flying literally hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants into the country after they used an online application program. The program applied to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. This is the "humanitarian parole" system that we've heard so much about. Then, last month, Biden quietly suspended the program after an investigation revealed massive fraud having been committed during the application process. And "massive" is a bit of an understatement. A mountain of fraudulent applications was revealed, with the methods being used so obvious that they should have been immediately recognizable if anyone had bothered to look. As an editorial in the New York Post points out today, how did the White House not see this coming and why are they pushing to restart the program as soon as possible?

Surprise, surprise: Team Biden has halted a program that flies migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela into the United States after the Department of Homeland Security uncovered massive fraud by the program’s applicants.

Gee, did anyone really think there wouldn’t be fraud?

This is a program, mind you, that never got congressional authorization and violates laws already on the books.

Yet despite the patently obvious likelihood of fraud, President Biden and border czar Kamala Harris went ahead with it anyway, flying in nearly half a million people since October 2022.

Again, we're not talking about "a little fraud" here or a few bad apples. And the methods being used to cheat the system weren't even particularly clever. Everyone accepted under the program had to provide the name of a sponsor in the United States, but most of those sponsors were obviously fake. Thousands of the "sponsors" listed fake social security numbers and phone numbers. Some of the social security numbers were real but belonged to dead people. 

Sponsors also had to provide their address and where the applicant would be staying. There were 100 addresses that showed up on more than 19,000 applications. (Those must be some impressive homes.) Tens of thousands of applications were submitted from the same IP address. The applications include a list of questions that must have answers typed in. Thousands of them had the exact same answers typed in for each question verbatim. And they were all the "correct" type of answers that wouldn't result in the application being denied.

Yet DHS is saying that they will "restart application processing as quickly as possible" after they finish conducting a review of the applications. Who will be conducting this review? Are they going to be reviewing the nearly half a million applications that have already been processed? What of the massive number of people who were granted entry under fraudulent circumstances? They should all be rounded up immediately and sent back to where we picked them up initially. Of course, you already know that Biden will never allow that to happen. People who knowingly submitted fraudulent applications to get a free flight into the country are, if anything, even more guilty than those who walked here and snuck over the border.

As so many people have already reminded us, this program has been illegitimate from the beginning. It was never approved by Congress and the procedures being employed are in violation of existing federal immigration laws. There is no such thing as "parole in place" (Biden made that up out of thin air) and what little parole we have authorized can only be done on a case-by-case basis. Joe Biden has been engaged in illegal activity on this issue for the entire time he's been in office. Does knowingly violating our immigration laws qualify as part of the President's "official duties?" Because if not, he really needs to be prosecuted for this the moment he leaves office.