WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement after reports that a Haitian national who entered the United States through the Biden-Harris administration’s unlawful mass-parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV) was arrested for molesting a 10-year-old boy in Massachusetts.
 
“Just days after the Biden-Harris administration decided to resume its unlawful CHNV mass-parole program, a Haitian national who entered through the program in 2023 was arrested for molesting a child in Massachusetts. This is not the first time something like this has happened, and it may not be the last if President Biden and Vice President, and border czar, Kamala Harris do not secure our border and cease this unlawful program. Instances such as this prove the so-called ‘vetting’ of these individuals is wholly inadequate, and thorough screening is largely impossible. We will continue to do everything in our power to hold the Biden-Harris administration accountable for releasing otherwise-inadmissible aliens who commit such vile crimes into our communities.”
 
Background: 
 
In March 2024, a Haitian national who entered the country through the CHNV program, was arrested for aggravated rape of a 15-year-old girl in Rockland, Massachusetts.

In a recent report, Fox News documented DHS’ decision to pause travel authorizations for CHNV parolees due to fraud discovered among those applying to sponsor inadmissible aliens seeking entry. Adam Shaw reported, “The internal report found that forms from those applying for the program included social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers being used hundreds of times in some cases. … 100,948 forms were filled out by 3,218 serial sponsors—those whose number appears on 20 or more forms. It also found that 24 of the 1,000 most used numbers belonged to a dead person. Meanwhile, 100 physical addresses were used between 124 and 739 times on over 19,000 forms.”

The Immigration and Nationality Act allows parole to be granted only “on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.” Since the official announcement of the program in January 2023, however, through July 2024, nearly 520,000 inadmissible aliens have arrived at U.S. ports of entry via the CHNV program.

In April 2024, the Committee released documents obtained by subpoenaing DHS that identified over 50 airport locations, including the nation’s capital, where inadmissible aliens have been flown into the country and processed by DHS for release. Chairman Green subpoenaed DHS on August 22, 2023 and sent a follow-up letter to now-impeachedDHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in September 2023, demanding compliance with the Committee’s requests for critical data and information regarding the CHNV parole program. The Committee first requested this information on April 27, 2023.

According to produced documents, as of mid-October 2023, there were 1.6 million inadmissible aliens awaiting travel authorizations through the CHNV program. In the documents, DHS admitted that none of these individuals have a legal basis to enter the country before being paroled through the program, stating, “All individuals paroled into the United States are, by definition, inadmissible, including those paroled under the CHNV Processes.”

In June, CIS released new documents regarding the CHNV program, revealing documents that show inadmissible aliens have arrived not just from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, but from more than 70 others worldwide, including Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Great Britain, Hong Kong, St. Lucia, and Sweden. Evidently, many who are making use of the Biden administration’s mass-parole program have settled comfortably in other nations and likely have no legitimate grounds for claiming protections within the United States.

 
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