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Dear {name}:
On August 2nd, the Biden administration announced it would pause its parole-in-place policy for immigrants arriving from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela based on evidence of large scale fraud being committed. Shocking? Hardly.
As background, parole was legislated into existence under the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 with the express purpose of being applied “only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.” However, under the leadership of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that’s rarely been the case. Here’s Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) excoriating Mayorkas on the topic, last June:
“What qualifies as an urgent humanitarian reason or a significant public benefit in your view seems to be anything that will appear to reduce regular immigration. This is so far afield from the definition Congress authorized…and far beyond what it's heretofore been understood to do. Parole wasn't intended to be broad nor was it intended to provide someone a permanent residence or a residence that can become permanent…I wonder how you can possibly defend the legality of this. . .”
While the policy was already under scrutiny, kudos to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) for making the internal DHS report public. FAIR’s post citing the fraud, in no small part, led to the administration’s action.
“The use of fake Social Security Numbers (SSNs), including SSNs of deceased individuals, and the use of false phone numbers. Many applications listed the same physical address. Some 100 addresses were listed on over 19,000 forms, and many parole applicants applied from a single property (including a mobile park home, warehouse, and storage unit). In addition, many applications were submitted by the same IP address. If this weren’t bad enough, the same exact answers to Form I-134A questions were provided on hundreds of applications – in some instances, the same answer was used by over 10,000 applicants.”
What the report didn’t address are the potential national security and public health risks posed by admitting as many as 30,000 unvetted immigrants each month. Since President Biden took office, over 8 million aliens have entered the country illegally. The ramifications of that will haunt the U.S. for decades.
Onward,
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