This week, Republicans on the House Committee on Homeland Security posted a fact sheet that talked about the over 170,000 meetings with migrants across the country in July. The committee fact sheet that came out on Wednesday says that there were 10.1 million meetings across the country during the Biden-Harris administration. That number didn’t include the two million known got-aways that CBP has tracked down since the beginning of fiscal year 2021.
The Committee Republicans said in a statement that the current administration’s usage of humanitarian parole to let refugees in at ports of entry was wrong, calling it a “huge parole shell game.” The statement says that the 10.1 million encounters with paroled migrants since Fiscal Year 2021 are done in this way to make the border look better. It says, “This spares Biden and Harris the bad optics of overcrowded Border Patrol facilities and over-worked agents, but the end result is the same: many thousands of illegal aliens being released into America.”
The fact sheet says that since Jan. 2023, the CBP One application and the Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan, and Nicaraguan (CHVN) humanitarian release program have let more than 1.2 million refugees into the United States at ports of entry. There is no requirement for any of the applicants to go through and pass a genuine fear interview with an asylum officer. This is the first step in making a successful asylum claim.
The DHS Fraud Detection Directorate (FDNS) found fraud in the funding process and shut down the CHVN program. There were multiple applications from the same sponsor and, in some cases, donors who were not alive, as well as addresses and zip codes that did not exist. At this point, the program is still pausing. But the CBP One scheme is still in place at land ports of entry.
The study says that the Biden-Harris administration’s “catch-and-release” tactics are to blame for crimes committed against US citizens. “This government is still using the same bad catch-and-release practices that let the killers of Rachel Morin, Laken Riley, and Jocelyn Nungaray go free in the country.”
