Republicans slam Biden migrant parole program: ‘This program is rife with fraud’


Republicans at the Space Judiciary Committee grilled Ur Jaddou, head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), on Wednesday, slamming her management and the Biden management for waving in pile unlawful immigration and working a humanitarian parole program “rife with fraud.”

USCIS is a federal company intended to supervise lawful immigration into the U.S.

“You totally blew it,” Texas Rep. Troy Nehls instructed Jaddou.

“The American people are sick and tired, and you should all be fired. Well you will be shortly because the American people said, ‘We ain’t going to tolerate this anymore,’” he added.  

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Ur Jaddou is head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Products and services. (The united states’s Expression )

Rep. Tom McClintock, head of the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, additionally drilled into Jaddou, pronouncing: “If anyone wonders why real wages for working families have declined under this administration, look no further than the agency before us today.”

“Our subcommittee,” he persevered, “has noted that in millions of cases, credible fear interviews are not even conducted before migrants who have illegally entered the country are then released into the country. How do you explain that?”

Jaddou tried to give an explanation for by way of pronouncing that USCIS, which basically receives its investment from applicant charges, is underfunded.

McClintock shot again that “until we opened our borders those fees were more than adequate to conduct those interviews and under your administration, they’re not.”

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Texas Nationwide Preserve troops guard greater than 1,000 immigrants who crossed the Rio Grande in a single day from Mexico on Dec. 18, 2023, in Eagle Cross, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Pictures)

The chairman took specific factor with the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans parole program – referred to as CHNV – which, in step with a November record by way of the subcommittee, was once old to permit greater than 530,000 migrants from the ones international locations into the U.S.

The CHNV program was once began by way of the Biden management in January 2023 and lets in as much as 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to go into the U.S. each and every future. It was once temporarily paused by way of the management in July because of fraud considerations however next reinstated simply weeks next.  

“They took a parole authority that required case-by-case review of individual exigent circumstances to provide temporary entry to the United States and transformed it into a fraud-ridden, mass admission of more than half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans up to 1,000 every day,” mentioned McClintock.  

A Haitian migrant licensed for humanitarian parole thank you as he forums a bus taking migrants into the U.S. on the Senda de Vida refuge on Aug. 30, 2022, in Reynosa, Mexico. (Michael Nigro/Getty Pictures)

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McClintock additionally criticized USCIS for no longer correctly vetting CHNV sponsors and permitting migrants to sponsor each and every alternative.

“Literally one parolee can immediately arrive in this country, receive indefinite status, and then sign up as a sponsor for the next. This is illegal chain migration on steroids all made possible by an agency willing to contort and ignore the law,” he mentioned.

Pressed additional by way of Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, Jaddou admitted that this system lets in migrants to sponsor alternative migrants. She mentioned 86% of CHNV parole sponsors are U.S. electorate and lawful citizens, escape questions concerning the alternative 14%.   

Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs dug additional, wondering Jaddou at the common abuses of the CHNV program by way of migrants, bringing up loads and hundreds of circumstances of the similar Social Safety quantity, e-mail, zip code and responses being old on a couple of sponsor programs.

“This program is rife with fraud,” Biggs mentioned, including that “the fraud was so rampant you closed down the program, but you didn’t fix it. It’s still ongoing.”

A migrant gliding takes to the air to Chicago from Texas on Dec. 19, 2023. (Gov. Greg Abbott)

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“Do you know how you reduce illegal immigration, according to the left? It’s really simple. You make illegal immigration legal,” mentioned Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt. 

“Biden was upset the American people were complaining about the increase in illegal immigration numbers at the border,” he mentioned. “So, what did Biden do? He legalized illegal immigration by expanding the intended use of parole to fit his needs.”

All over the listening to, Jaddou maintained that her company was once successfully managing its tasks, together with the CHNV program, which she mentioned is “just one piece” of “an entire border management strategy.” 

“It cannot work alone,” she mentioned. “Neither can enforcement measures work alone if we want it to be long-lasting, and that’s why this process is important.” 


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