According to government records, a sizable number of foreigners are awaiting permission to travel to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s parole pipeline.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) made public documents pertaining to the administration’s CHNV program on Tuesday. This program has allowed over 400,000 citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to travel to the United States at their own expense.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed to the committee, among other noteworthy information, that as of mid-October 2023, “roughly 1.6 million” foreign persons had sought travel authorization to the United States under the CHNV program.
To put things in perspective, as of last autumn, there were more foreigners requesting entrance into the United States under the CHNV program than there were people living in eleven states, including Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, and the Dakotas.
In their statement to the committee, DHS representatives stated that “there is now a monthly maximum of 30,000 [Advance Travel Authorizations] that may be provided [to foreign nationals] via CHNV procedures.”
In their response, DHS representatives acknowledged that, although the government has made it easier for foreign nationals to enter the country on parole, they are still ineligible for entry based on federal law, which means they have no right to be in the country.
The DHS officials add, “By definition, all people paroled into the United States are inadmissible, including those paroled under the CHNV protocols.”
Foreigners permitted to travel to the United States under the CHNV program are using more than 50 airports in the United States and its surrounding nations, according to the records.
Despite earlier studies identifying which airports are most likely to support the CHNV program, these documents illustrate the range of airports engaged in supporting the program.
As per Green, the records “unmask the outrageous measures [DHS] Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas would undertake to guarantee that undocumented immigrants wind up everywhere in the nation, from Las Vegas and San Francisco to Orlando and Atlanta.”
“The CHNV parole scheme, which Secretary Mayorkas is using as an illegal smoke screen to conceal the growing border catastrophe from the American people,” Green continued. “We have established that implementing a program that allows foreigners who would otherwise be ineligible to enter the country directly is an impeachable offense.”
