The House Judiciary Committee has released a report revealing fraud in one of Homeland Security's major border operations, the CHNV program. The report revealed that welfare recipients, criminal activity involved individuals, and other illegal immigrants have been approved as sponsors for parolees from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Homeland Security admitted it does not have a way to check the criminal records of would-be sponsors, and the department approved sponsors who reported that at least some of their income came from illegal sources such as criminal activity.
The CHNV program was invented by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas two years ago to encourage Venezuelan migrants to skip the border and fly directly into airports, relieving pressure on Border Patrol agents. However, the program has been swamped with fraud, with Venezuelan gang members, dead people, and stolen identities being listed as applicants.
The new report from Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s staff suggests the program was fatally flawed from conception, allowing people who seem to have been bad risks to act as sponsors. The committee found that at least 336 sponsors were approved despite receiving welfare benefits, 21 sponsorship applications were approved even though the supporters admitted at least some of their income came from an illegal source, and Homeland Security cannot say how many sponsors have other criminal records beyond their financial entanglements.
The department said it is "not aware" of any cases where it approved a sponsor with a serious criminal record. An internal document obtained by the committee stated that USCIS doesn't do criminal records checks, and it is not authorized to run names through the FBI's databases.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/20/welfare-recipients-criminals-allowed-sponsor-illeg/
No comments:
Post a Comment