A Biden administration migrant welfare program could deliver more than $1 billion in benefits to those crossing the southern border.
The CHNV program has allowed hundreds of thousands of citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the United States.
It allows 30,000 immigrants to request asylum every month and be sent to the United States with the money of the taxpayers, provided they have a sponsor to pass a background verification.
Undocumented immigrants are given a two-year grace period to obtain status and in the meantime can legally live and work in the country under “humanitarian parole.”
According to border protection figures, more than 520,000 migrants from the four countries were put on probation in the United States between January 2023 and June this year.
The Biden administration’s CHNV program has allowed hundreds of thousands of nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the United States.
It allows 30,000 immigrants to request asylum every month and be sent to the United States with the money of the taxpayers, provided they have a sponsor to pass a background verification.
This figure was broken down into 109,000 Cubans, 205,000 Haitians, 90,000 Nicaraguans and 115,000 Venezuelans.
The Haitians and Cubans who participate in the program are immediately eligible to receive federal benefits funded by taxpayers, such as Medicaid, food coupons and social assistance.
The analysis of Dailymail.com indicates that the cost of Medicaid, which costs around $ 9,175 per affiliate, would cost $ 1.8 billion if each Cuban and Haitian who entered the country received it.
The benefits of SNAP, more commonly known as food coupons, would cost 451 million dollars to the country, and the benefits of general social assistance would amount to 1.2 billion dollars.
The three figures bring total benefit spending to just $3.4 billion.
Even if only a quarter of the Haitians received all the benefits to which you are entitled, that figure would amount to 850 million dollars.
Average costs were obtained from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Department of Health and Human Services, and a Medicaid Commission.
Judicial documents show that the selection process is not strict, with an approval index of 98.3 percent for Haitian applicants from January to June last year.
The Haitians and Cubans who participate in the program are immediately eligible to receive federal benefits funded by taxpayers, such as Medicaid, food coupons and social assistance.
In that period, 78,838 Haitians had requested to participate in the program and the National Security Department had awarded 64,285 cases, of which 63,214 were approved.
That figure was revealed in a lawsuit filed this year by the state of Texas and other states led by Republicans who demanded the Biden administration to block the program.
Other states, including Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas, argued that the program had left them with additional costs for health care, education and law enforcement.
They also argued that the Biden administration was inviting people who would otherwise have entered the country illegally.
A federal judge ruled that the government could continue with the program, which was welcomed by the Secretary of National Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas.
Last month, the Biden administration had to pause the program after mass fraud was discovered.
The freezing occurred after an internal DHS report revealed fraud among the sponsors who paid for migrants to come to the country, sources told Fox News.
The ongoing border crisis has become a central talking point in the ongoing race for the White House between Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
A total of 3,200 individual sponsors signed up to support roughly 101,000 migrants, according to the report, prompting concerns at DHS that the system was being abused.
The report indicating fraud also found, surprisingly, that some of the names used to complete the sponsorship forms belonged to deceased people.
In addition, storage units were found to be the home addresses for some sponsorship applications, while certain phone numbers were used in thousands of applications.
Almost 3,000 sponsorship requests were completed using false postal codes, discovered the Federation for the American Immigration Reform (Fair), a non -profit conservative organization dedicated to immigration that the report obtained for the first time.
At the end of last month it was announced that the program would continue after the DHS “incorporated additional investigation.”
The current border crisis has become a topic of central discussion in the current race for the White House between Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on September 13, 2024.
During this week’s debate, Trump accused Haitian immigrants of “eating pets” in Springfield, Ohio, an without foundation that first appeared on social networks.
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people who came here are eating the cats,” the former president said. “They’re eating the pets of the people who live there.”
Harris could be heard muttering “What? This is unbelievable” before adding “how extreme” and laughing.
On Friday, Trump continued to disparage Haitian migrants in the Ohio city, fueling false claims.
At a press conference in California, he said: “We will make great deportations from Springfield, Ohio,” and added that immigrants are “destroying the way of life.”
On Friday, President Joe Biden said the Haitian community is “under attack” right now and called for an end to Republican comments.
“It’s just wrong. There’s no place for this in America,” Biden said during a White House lunch. “This has to stop, what he’s doing. It has to stop.”