U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released the number of illegal aliens who have been admitted into the United States via the federal government’s CHNV parole scheme.
A new report reveals that as of August 2024, nearly 530,000 illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have been flown into the country and granted parole.
The total number includes more than 110,000 Cubans, an estimated 210,000 Haitians, an excess of 93,000 Nicaraguans, and 117,000 Venezuelans who were permitted to stay inside the United States via the program’s benefits since its inception in January 2023.
“Additionally, approx 813,000 migrants have scheduled appointments via the CBP One app at ports of entry to be released into the US,” Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin posted on X. “These are ‘lawful pathways’ created by the Biden administration, and these numbers do not count in Border Patrol data, as they are not illegal crossings.”
According to Melugin, most of the illegal aliens brought inside the country are given two-year parole grants as part of the controversial CHNV program.
The program was frozen last month after an investigation by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service unearthed swaths of fraud. Specifically, fraud was discovered in the paperwork a potential American-based sponsor files with USCIS for illegal aliens seeking to obtain parole.
Not only were many applications for parole submitted from the same address, but questions asked on Form I-134A received the same responses in as many as 10,000 different applications.
In late August, however, the program was unfrozen—leading U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green to blast the Biden-Harris administration for the decision.
“It should come as no surprise that the Biden-Harris administration has rushed to restart its unlawful CHNV mass-parole scheme, despite the clear evidence of fraud permeating the program,” he said.
“The CHNV program, along with the use of the CBP One app at the Southwest border, has helped the president and his border czar play a massive shell game, encouraging otherwise-inadmissible aliens to simply cross at ports of entry instead of between them,” Green continued.
