When the Department of Homeland Security announced that, “out of an abundance of caution,” it would pause the Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, informally known as CHNV, enforcement advocates knew better than to put much stock in the agency’s trite statement. Americans who have grown tired of reckless, random, over-immigration recognized the pause would be only smoke and mirrors.
On January 5, 2023, Biden announced the CHNV program, which allows up to 30,000 individuals per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, who have a U.S.-based financial supporter, pass vetting and background checks, and meet other unspecified criteria, to be eligible to enter the U.S. for a period of two years and to receive work authorization. Since its inception, CHNV has aided Haiti more than the other three countries with 138,000 nationals benefiting from the parole. Prompted by a report that the non-partisan Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) published based on an internal review that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services conducted, DHS took the unprecedented step of shutting down CHNV during the first week of August, albeit for only about a month. USCIS’ objective was to identify “patterns, trends, and potential fraud indicators” that might suggest “massive fraud in the application process,” failings that FAIR exposed in its analysis.
On August 30, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the resumption of advanced CHNV travel authorizations for beneficiaries of the so-called humanitarian parole program. But Congress never approved CHNV; the program is therefore illegal. CHNV is the same all are welcome and ignore Congress approach to immigration that President Joe Biden and his Cuban-born, indicted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have embraced since their administration’s first day.
“Massive fraud” is an understatement. The USCIS internal report found that certain Social Security Numbers, addresses and telephone numbers were used hundreds of times. Often the personal information was either false or belonged to deceased individuals. The report highlighted the brazen listing of obviously fraudulent SSNs; aliens often used identical SSNs – such as “111111111” or “123456789” or “666666666” —proving that illegal aliens shamelessly submitted duplicitous data to the government.
Moreover, one hundred identical physical addresses appeared repeatedly. Properties associated with the addresses included mobile home parks, warehouses, storage units, apartment complexes and commercial properties. The review found that 739 forms used the same address from a single mobile home park, another 596 were attributable to a solitary warehouse, and 501 had the same storage unit address. This shocking violation of the program’s official rules and regulations stands in stark contrast to DHS’ insistence that it “thoroughly screened and vetted [illegal aliens] prior to their arrival to the U.S.”
When evaluating the CHNV con job, citizens should remember two things. First, taxpayers who strongly object to open borders underwrite a sizable portion of the illegal immigrants’ journeys from their home nations to the U.S. interior. With employment permits in hand, the arriving aliens could displace American workers or prevent recent high school graduates from gaining employment. Comparing the fourth quarter of 2019 to the fourth quarter of 2023 shows that 2.7 million more people worked in the U.S. But the total 2.7 million workers breaks down as 2.9 million more legal and illegal immigrants and 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans. And second, the arriving nationals come from countries that are hostile to the U.S. The State Department has a level four—Do Not Travel— advisories for Haiti and a level two—Exercise Increased Caution— for Cuba; in 2019, the State Department ended its diplomatic relationship with Venezuela. Nicaragua has a “reconsider travel” bulletin posted on the State Department’s website.
The State Department advises against travel to CHNV countries because of terrorism threats, kidnapping risks, rampant crime, and anti-American hostility. Only the most naïve would put stock in DHS’ assurances that the new version of CHNV will include true vetting—-a process that, if carried out thoroughly, takes up to two years to complete. In the meantime, business continues as usual at DHS. Unvetted thousands of illegal aliens are arriving by land and, thanks to CHNV, by air. No one truly knows the backgrounds or intentions of the arriving illegal immigrants. Revived but still fraud-ridden, CHNV is strictly a buyer beware proposition. The program should end, an unlikely outcome even considering the overwhelming evidence of fraud, as long the current administration remains in the White House.
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