MIAMI.- This Thursday, August 29, the Department of National security The United States Department of Health (DHS) announced the resumption of Humanitarian Paroleraising questions within the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) about how the Joe Biden Administration will prevent cases of fraud in the program that tries to manage a migration legal and safe.
FAIR, which was tasked with uncovering the internal report on the major parole fraud, called on DHS to clarify how sponsors will be vetted to ensure effectiveness.
According to Dan Stein, president of FAIR, the DHS “only offered very vague assurances that they had fixed the problems” with the program that primarily benefits migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
An insufficient plan
The government agency announced the resumption of the program with significant changes, including more rigorous vetting of sponsors in the United States, in which Applications will be reviewed manually in small batches, with more stringent procedures. It also includes additional reviews to identify potential fraudulent patterns among sponsors, applying enhanced analysis methods to detect mass-submitted applications.
In addition, sponsors will be required to provide fingerprints and undergo extensive background screening, in order to protect the integrity of the process and prevent abuse.
However, FAIR believes the plan presented by DHS is insufficient to prevent fraud cases from recurring. “The reset plan does not address how they plan to investigate each sponsor, while maintaining a program that allows 30,000 illegal immigrants per month to enter the United States or conduct adequate background checks on people paroled from countries whose governments are hostile to the United States. The American public has every reason to be very skeptical“Stein said.
Without research
The report revealed that 101,000 sponsorship applications had been submitted by 3,218 serial sponsors and identified thousands of suspicious applications, where sponsors used the same postal addresses, IPs or phone numbers.
For this case, which forced the temporary suspension of the program that has brought nearly 500,000 migrants from four countries to US soil, They have only referred six cases to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s Fraud Detection and Homeland Security Directorate to investigate possible criminal fraud.
For FAIR, although the DSH publicly admitted that Humanitarian Parole has allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to enter the US “without adequate processes established to investigate parolees or their sponsors,” it has not given “any indication that go investigate past fraud or take action to revoke the parole statuses of those who obtained them fraudulently.”
