The House Committee on Homeland Security released documents Wednesday obtained through a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subpoena.
The documents identified over 50 airport locations, including our nation’s capital, where DHS assisted in the processing of over 400,000 inadmissible aliens through the administration’s illegal Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) mass-parole program.
The initiative was officially initiated in January 2023, and the records collected by the Committee span the period from January to August 2023, accounting for almost 200,000 of these individuals.
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According to these documents, as of mid-October 2023, 1.6 million inadmissible aliens were seeking travel authorizations through the CHNV program.
In the documents, DHS admits that none of these individuals had a legal basis to enter the nation prior to being paroled under the program, writing, “All individuals paroled into the United States are, by definition, inadmissible, including those paroled under the CHNV Processes.”
“These documents expose the egregious lengths Secretary Mayorkas will go to ensure inadmissible aliens reach every corner of the country, from Orlando and Atlanta to Las Vegas and San Francisco. Secretary Mayorkas’ CHNV parole program is an unlawful sleight of hand used to hide the worsening border crisis from the American people,” said Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN).
“Implementing a program that allows otherwise inadmissible aliens to fly directly into the U.S.––not for significant public benefit or urgent humanitarian reasons as the Immigration and Nationality Act mandates––has been proven an impeachable offense. Following our subpoena and the House’s impeachment vote––especially in light of the Senate’s complete failure to fulfill its duty to hold a trial––the Committee will not rest until this administration is finally held accountable for its open-borders agenda and its devastating impact on our homeland security,” said Green.
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According to the documents:
The top 15 airport locations used for the CHNV program and the number of inadmissible aliens who flew into a port of entry between January-August 2023 were:
- Miami, Fla.: 91,821
- Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.: 60,461
- New York City, N.Y.: 14,827
- Houston, Texas: 7,923
- Orlando, Fla.: 6,043
- Los Angeles, Calif.: 3,271
- Tampa, Fla.: 3,237
- Dallas, Texas: 2,256
- San Francisco, Calif.: 2,052
- Atlanta, Ga.: 1,796
- Newark, N.J.: 1,498
- Washington, D.C.: 1,472
- Chicago, Ill.: 496
- Las Vegas, Nev.: 483
- Austin, Texas: 171
The other airports used for the program are located in: Aruba; Baltimore, Md.; Boston; Mass.; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Charlotte, N.C.; Dublin, Ireland; Denver, Colo.; Detroit, Mich.; Fresno, Calif.; Fort Myers, Fla.; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Ind.; Kansas City, Mo.; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.; Nassau, Bahamas; New Orleans, La.; Oakdale, La.; Ottawa, Canada; Philadelphia, Pa.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Providence, R.I.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Sacramento, Calif.; San Juan, P.R.; Savannah, Ga.; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, Calif.; Seattle, Wash.; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Jose, Calif.; St. Paul, Minn.; St. Louis, Mo.; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Since the beginning of the program in January 2023, 404,000 inadmissible aliens have been paroled into the country nationwide through the CHNV program. Nationwide encounters at ports of entry this fiscal year have increased by 44 percent compared to the first six months of Fiscal Year 2023. Over half of all monthly encounters at ports of entry this fiscal year were from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
In August 2023, Chairman Green sent a follow-up letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demanding compliance with the Committee’s August 22, 2023 subpoena for critical data and information regarding the CHNV parole program.
The Committee first requested this information on April 27, 2023, and after 103 days of delinquency from DHS, the Committee issued a subpoena to DHS, at which point the requested documents and information were produced.
As highlighted in the Committee’s first interim report on the border crisis last year and referenced in a March 2024 Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report, the Biden administration created the CHNV parole program to grant travel authorizations for qualifying inadmissible aliens to fly into the country and be released under a two-year work authorization.
In addition, DHS expanded the use of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One app from its intended commercial use to allow illegal immigrants who participate in the CHNV parole program to schedule appointments through the app. 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.
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