During their tenure in office, the Biden administration used a “categorical parole program” for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, that enabled thousands of people from those nations to fly directly into the United States, bypassing the border, and then to be distributed all over the United States.

The House Judiciary Committee has now released a report revealing many details of that process, how laden it was with fraud and abuse – and, we might note, pointing out the need to shut this program down for keeps.

Excellent news!

We exposed the Biden-Harris admin’s disastrous CHNV program.

Read our report from last November here: pic.twitter.com/8hz3PXXTmm

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) March 22, 2025

The report may be viewed in full here. Let’s look at some highlights.

Federal law requires that the DHS Secretary use his parole authority only on a “case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.” The Biden-Harris Administration not only ignores federal law to achieve its desired goals; even worse, the Biden-Harris Administration’s unlawful CHNV program is plagued by so much fraud that DHS itself was forced to pause the program in July 2024. An internal DHS report on the CHNV parole program found, among other major problems with supporter applications, that “forms from those applying for the program included social security numbers, addresses[,] and phone numbers being used hundreds of times in some cases.” Nonetheless, despite this documented evidence of fraud, the Biden-Harris Administration announced in late August 2024 that it would restart the program.

This was not, of course, about the law. It wasn’t about Joe Biden’s humanitarian impulses; indeed, by July of 2024, it had become abundantly clear that Joe Biden had very little idea what was going on. And it gets worse:

Since 2023, the Committee on the Judiciary and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement have conducted rigorous oversight of the Biden-Harris border crisis, including the Administration’s abuses of immigration law. This oversight has uncovered how the Biden-Harris Administration’s willingness to cast aside the best interests of Americans has enabled fraud, undermined national security, and endangered public safety, all in favor of ensuring that hundreds of thousands of otherwise illegal aliens can come to the U.S. through CHNV. For example: 

• USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) has approved CHNV supporters even when the supporter submitted fraudulent documents as a part of the supporter application.
• USCIS has approved CHNV supporters who admitted that the income they plan to use to support the CHNV alien includes income derived from criminal activity.
• USCIS has approved CHNV supporters who admitted to receiving means-tested public benefits as part of their income listed as evidence that they can support a CHNV alien. Thus, American taxpayers may actually end up supporting CHNV aliens despite Biden-Harris Administration claims that those aliens will have supporters in the U.S. 
• USCIS has refused to tell the Committee whether it has any mechanism or remedy to ensure that CHNV supporters fulfill their agreement to provide the CHNV alien financial support during the time for which the alien is paroled in the U.S. If the approved supporter does not financially support the CHNV alien, that burden will fall to American taxpayers.
• USCIS has confirmed CHNV supporters who are aliens in the United States on a short-term basis and who are subject to removal from the U.S. at any time, such as aliens on temporary visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients, and even parolees themselves. As a result, CHNV is a supercharged chain migration program in which foreign nationals in the U.S. on a temporary basis can sponsor additional foreign nationals to travel to the U.S. on a temporary basis, who can then sponsor additional foreign nationals to enter the country, and so on.

There’s a lot more where that came from; you should read the whole report.