To address a dramatic increase in migrants who have crossed the Southwest border illegally from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela specifically that began in late FY 2021, the Biden administration created parole programs that allow nationals of those four countries to apply for parole without leaving home and to receive authorization to fly to, remain in, and work in the United States, despite being inadmissible to the country under federal law.
As shorthand, we refer to these programs as "CHNV Parole".
At the same time it rolled out CHNV Parole, the Biden administration also announced that would-be illegal migrants would be able to schedule their unlawful arrivals at Southwest border ports of entry using the CBP One Mobile App and receive parole - a policy that immigration experts now often refer to as the "CBP One App interview scheme".
Unlike the CNHV program, this arrangement at the land ports of entry is not "Nationality specific", and as of February 2024, the Biden administration has allowed more than 500,000 inadmissible aliens to enter and be released into the country through the CBP One App interview scheme.
The second major problem with the CHNV Parole program is that the Biden administration is expressly using it to circumvent the immigration limits Congress has set.
CHNV parole allows inadmissible aliens to "Jump the line" ahead of aliens abroad waiting for visas, without most American voters - who largely oppose the Biden administration's immigration policies - ever realizing that fact.
The VALID Act strategy is unique in that it does not address DHS's parole authority or the Biden administration's general unwillingness to enforce federal immigration laws against most aliens in or attempting to enter the United States without a lawful immigration status.
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