REPORT: Trump officials make plans to revoke ‘legal’ status of migrants welcomed under Biden

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From CBS News: The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the legal status of many of the migrants who were allowed to come to the U.S. legally from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela under former President Joe Biden, according to internal government documents reviewed by CBS News.

The proposal by the Department of Homeland Security, spelled out in an unpublished notice, would fully terminate a Biden administration program that allowed more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to fly to the U.S. if American sponsors agreed to help them financially.

The Biden administration argued the policy, known as CHNV, discouraged illegal immigration by people from these four Latin American countries by offering them legal means to come to the U.S., but President Trump froze the initiative hours after being inaugurated. Trump officials have specifically argued the program was a misuse of immigration parole, the legal authority which the Biden administration used to admit those under the sponsorship initiative, and to allow them to apply for work permits.

Under the new move, the Trump administration would revoke the parole status of those allowed into the U.S. under the CHNV policy and place them in deportation proceedings if they have failed to apply for, or obtain, another immigration benefit, like asylum, a green card, or Temporary Protected Status, the internal proposal shows.

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Fox News reporter Bill Melugin had noted back in September that the Biden-Harris administration was welcoming in a combined total 70,000 to 80,000 migrants every month through CBS One App and the migrant flights parole programs.

Melugin noted that Trump had promised then he would end the programs and revoke the parole grants should he win the election.

In August of last year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), discovered that there was massive fraud associated with the migrant flight program, and it was paused for about a month before the Biden-Harris administration re-started it.   True.news had reported the following based on FAIR’s findings:

Below are excerpts from the FAIR report detailing the alarming amount of fraud, including a large number having the same sponsor, including dead people, and same addresses, including storage units.

•   IP Addresses
The report reveals that the 100 IP addresses accounted for 51,133 of the Form I-134A applications submitted. In one example, an IP address located in Tijuana, Mexico, was used 1,328 times. The report states that, on average, each IP address associated with these programs submitted 2.2 application forms.

•   Sponsors’ Social Security Numbers (SSN)
The internal report found that a total of 100,948 forms had been filed by 3,218 different serial sponsors. It also notes that sponsors often did not provide their income (even though the sponsor is financially required to support the alien).  Sponsors that did provide their incomes “often [did] not meet the financial threshold to support the number of parolees they intend to sponsor.” The report also highlights that applicants used SSNs of deceased individuals, and states that “24 of the 1,000 most used sponsor SSNs belong to a deceased individual.”

•   Sponsor and Parolee Phone Number
The review found that phone numbers submitted on I-134A application forms were used many times. In fact, the report states that “One sponsor phone number was reported on over 2,000 forms submitted by 200 different sponsors.”  Further, “[o]ne parolee phone number was reported on 626 different forms and was associated with 238 different parolee last names and 142 different parolee addresses.”

•   Sponsor and Parolee Email Addresses
DHS also found that sponsors filled out multiple forms for multiple aliens seeking parole. According to the report, the most frequently used sponsor e-mail address was listed on 363 different forms. Further, the most frequently used parolee e-mail address was listed on 1,723 different forms collectively submitted by 477 different sponsors.

•   Repetitive Text Field
The Department scrutinized answers to questions on the I-134A form to determine how often the answers reoccurred verbatim and found that the exact same responses were used over and over.  In one instance, the same answer was used 4,978 times, while a slightly different variation of the answer (using “she” versus “he”) was used 2,837 times, and another slightly different variation of the answer (using “the”) was used another 2,557 times.

FAIR also shared details showing much of the data provided by the sponsors was fictitious, including zip codes, phone numbers and file numbers that did not even exist.

The applications also used the same addresses over and over. “…there were 100 addresses used between 124 and 739 times on unique forms – and these 100 addresses were associated with 19,062 forms. The properties associated with the addresses on the forms include mobile home parks, warehouses, storage units, apartment complexes and commercial properties. The review found that 739 forms used the address from a single mobile home park, another 596 were attributable to a single warehouse, and 501 had an address to a storage unit.”

The Biden administration first announced the program in October 2022, to allow a “limited number” of Venezuelans to fly directly into the U.S., as long as they had not entered illegally, had a sponsor in the U.S., and passed certain biometric and biographical vetting.

In January 2023, the program was expanded to include Haitians, Nicaraguans and Cubans, permitting up to 30,000 people per month to fly into the U.S. Not only do the migrants get an easy path into the US, but they also receive work permits and a two-year authorization to live in the U.S.

(Now the Trump administration wants to send them back home.)

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