Published Aug. 6, 2024, 12:31 p.m. ET
The Biden-Harris administration is pausing a scheme that allows up to 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans per month — none of whom have any legal right to be admitted — to fly into the United States with access to work authorization, known as “CHNV Parole.”Turns out the program was rife with fraud.But that’s no surprise, because CHNV was created with fraud in mind — and the first marks in this con were American voters.
Congress never authorized this massive parole, and President Biden’s legal right to implement it is questionable. Moreover, it was designed not to limit illegal immigration, but to hide the true extent of the border crisis.
Customs and Border Protection describes both aliens denied admission at the border and those apprehended entering illegally as “encounters.” The law treats them exactly the same, and mandates they all be removed unless they are eligible for some immigration benefit.
Buy because CHNV migrants fly directly to this country, they don’t show up in the Border Patrol’s monthly Southwest border encounter totals — the metric the media usually rely on when talking about illegal migration.So 360,000 people enter the country per year — and probably more — without being added to the millions being encountered at the border.
That doesn’t mean CHNV parolees have any more legal right to be admitted than apprehended migrants do, or that they aren’t imposing costs on American communities.
Cities like New York haven’t been dealing with migrant crises in the past three years solely because Border Patrol agents have apprehended nearly 7 million illegal entrants at the Southwest border since February 2021.
Instead, those municipal emergencies stem from the administration.
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