Another little-known policy implemented by President Joe Biden last year allows immigrants on parole in the United States to serve as sponsors for other parolees, and border hawks are not happy about the revelation.
While the number of immigrants in the country who are only allowed to enter because they have the support of other parolees is unknown, it is believed that at least hundreds of thousands could be using this policy.
Any migrant with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or in the U.S. with asylum claims, as well as parolees, refugees, and deferred action, Deferred Enforced Departure, or DACA recipients, can serve as support for other migrants on parole, in accordance with policies. implemented in January 2023.
This creates a ‘chain parole’ system where parolees can bring other parolees to the United States by promising to support and sponsor them financially.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green told DailyMail.com that the policy “makes a mockery” of immigration laws, as well as national and border security in the US.
The policy is part of a push by the Biden administration to prevent former President Donald Trump from expelling illegal immigrants if he returns to the White House next year, NumbersUSA research director Eric Ruark said in an interview with DailyMail.com. .
Under Biden’s policies, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has detained more than 7.63 million migrants who crossed illegally into the United States at the southern border. There are several cases since Biden’s term began in January 2021 that have set record levels in the number of crossings per month.
Trump has promised that if he wins in 2024, he will begin a massive deportation operation of the millions of immigrants living in the United States illegally. He has said that he would use law enforcement, the National Guard and other military personnel if necessary to arrest undocumented immigrants.
President Joe Biden’s immigration policies allow immigrant parolees to serve as sponsors for other parolees.
Under Biden’s policies for the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela protocols, migrants in this category can receive financial support and be brought to the country by asylum seekers, parolees, refugees and DACA recipients.
Estimates say at least 11.5 million people live in the United States without legal status, but some immigration hawks believe the number is higher than 22 million. Republican lawmakers demand that Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reveal the true number of illegal immigrants living in the US.
The little-known parole policy, first exposed last month by the Center for Immigration StudiesIt further facilitates the entry of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) into the US and was implemented as part of Biden’s massive expansion of the CHNV program in January 2023.
Biden’s policies regarding CHNV parolees allow 30,000 immigrants from those countries to enter the US each month if they apply first on the CBP One app and are approved for entry into the US while they wait rulings on asylum applications.
Explosive reports from earlier this year revealed that in the first year of its existence, more than 320,000 immigrants were flown from foreign airports to the United States under this program.
‘[DHS] Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas is doing a terrible job, but he is very good at what he does,” Ruark told DailyMail.com. “If you believe his job is to protect the homeland under the Department of Homeland Security, prevent illegal immigration and enforce the law , he’s not doing those things.”
“But what he’s doing, again, is setting up the system to bring people in and doing it in a way that presents challenges for a different administration that really wants to combat illegal immigration,” he continued.
‘He is doing it in a very intelligent way. He knows what he’s doing. This is not incompetence. This is deliberate and willful.”
Chairman Green said the parolee-partisan policy further demonstrates the “absurdities” of the Biden administration’s “massive parole” protocols for CHNV immigrants.
“As the documents we recently obtained from DHS show (documents we obtained only after taking legal action), even DHS admits that every parolee is an inadmissible alien,” Rep. Green (R-Tenn.) told DailyMail .com. “That’s bad enough.”
“What’s worse,” he continued. “It’s just that DHS has crafted this program in such a way that one ineligible parolee can sponsor another.”
‘This network created by President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas flouts the laws they swore to uphold and exposes the CHNV program as simply another attempt to process and release as many inadmissible people into our country as quickly as possible, regardless of the consequences. .’
An analysis last month revealed the US cities where arrivals under President Joe Biden’s program transport up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants each month to be released into the US.
Migrants return to the Texas side of the Rio Grande Valley on April 20 after the Texas National Guard conducts an operation to disperse those in the Rio Grande Valley trying to request asylum.
‘Chain parole’ also means that if a migrant is expelled from the country at some point during the parole process, it leaves open the possibility that those who receive financial support from that individual may be abandoned without a sponsor.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) lists in their policies requirements for anyone who wants to “serve as support” for CHNV parolees.
Supporters, USCIS notes, must “pass a security and background investigation, including for issues of public safety, national security, human trafficking, and exploitation.”
Additionally, they must “demonstrate sufficient financial resources to receive, maintain, and support the individuals they agree to maintain during their period of probation.”
Finally, supporters must ‘be a U.S. citizen, national, or legal permanent resident; have legal status in the United States, such as temporary protected status or asylum; or be a person on parole or recipient of deferred action or Deferred Enforced Departure.’
Essentially, as Rep. Green points out, “inadmissible aliens” are given the authority to be able to financially support and sponsor a migrant who is also allowed to enter the US because they are on parole.
NumbersUSA’s research director says the policy contributes to Biden’s “shadow immigration system” and creates a system in which there is less accountability for undocumented immigrants released into the country on parole.
He wondered ‘what’s going to happen to [migrants on parole] if they fail to appear for their court date or to renew this probation status after the two years have passed?
“DHS has also effectively dismantled domestic surveillance,” Ruark lamented. ‘And that’s why they said: ‘If you stay longer than the visa allows, you are not a priority and we are not going to do anything to find you and expel you’; The same will happen with people who arrive on parole.
‘I think the obvious goal of the Biden administration is to get as many foreigners into the United States as quickly as possible, by any means possible. And allow them to stay here permanently,’ she added.
In the case of traditional humanitarian parole applications, there is no requirement regarding the immigration status of the financial sponsor, meaning other parolees could also sponsor immigrants in this case.
CHNV supporters on parole are unique in that they must submit a Statement of Financial Support and demonstrate that they have the financial resources to support the beneficiary.
NumbersUSA research director Eric Ruark told DailyMail.com that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (left) “is doing a terrible job, but he’s very good at what he does.” If you think his job is to protect the homeland under the Department of Homeland Security, prevent illegal immigration and enforce the law, he’s not doing those things.
Eligibility requirements for CHNV supporters were established in Federal Register notices for each country in October 2022 and implemented on January 6, 2023.
‘The requirements for CHNV supporters are consistent with those created for the United for Ukraine program. “Each supporter must pass a background check and demonstrate sufficient financial resources to receive, maintain and support the person they are pledging to support during their stay in the United States,” a USCIS representative told DailyMail.com.
A person familiar with CHNV’s parole program told DailyMail.com that most of the time DHS cannot obtain “good enough information to vet people” seeking asylum or parole in the US. .from these countries.
They claim that CHNV parole – and the expansion of humanitarian parole in general – is aimed at ‘getting people’ into the United States and ‘avoiding what people see at the border.’