Biden-Harris Admin Might Restart Asylum Program Before DHS Finishes Fraud Investigation
DHS is still reviewing over 30,000 applications!
NBC News reported that Joe Biden’s administration might revive his controversial illegal alien flight program even though DHS hasn’t finished an investigation into alleged fraud.
The program allows illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela “to fly or travel directly into the U.S.”
A congressional source said DHS paused the program in July “after an internal report unearthed large amounts of fraud in applications for those sponsoring the applicants.”
But NBC News learned that the Biden-Harris administration wants to restart it “because it is believed to be deterring migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela crossing the border illegally.”
DHS is still reviewing over 30,000 applications!
Around 3,218 “serial sponsors” filed almost 101,000 sponsor applications for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Venezuela:
The report’s authors found thousands of instances of would-be sponsors’ using the same street addresses, internet protocol addresses or phone numbers. Almost 600 applications were flagged, for example, because they all appeared to use the address of the same commercial warehouse in Orlando, Florida. The authors also found repeated uses of the same Social Security numbers, including numbers belonging to dead people.
Small numbers of sponsors for large groups of people have raised concerns about potential human trafficking for immigration programs in the past, though it is not known whether DHS is reviewing those cases for potential human trafficking, the sources said.
Over 1,300 of the applications came from Tijuana, Mexico.
Nine IP addresses had more women sponsored than men. One IP address alone wanted to sponsor 18 females.
Fourteen of these females are under 18.
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“the Biden-Harris administration wants to restart it “because it is believed to be deterring migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela crossing the border illegally.”
This is like arguing that you can deter home burglaries by mandating that homeowners hold regular open houses for street people.
They don’t want to let in people who have every reason to hate communism
Do you mean they want to let people in who love communism? I think that’s one of the reasons to come here- to flee communism.
would they let them in if they were not allowed to vote?
If it allows them in, then by definition they’re not illegal. Unless it does so illegally, in which case someone would have sued to stop it.
But under current law it’s not illegal. They’re legal applicants for asylum. They properly apply while outside the USA, rather than by showing up at the border, let alone by first breaking into the country and only then applying. That’s how it’s supposed to happen.
And having properly applied, the president certainly has the discretion to let them in while waiting for their hearing. Any president, including Trump, would do so in a case where the applicant appears to be in genuine danger, and likely to succeed at their hearing.
The problem with what’s happening now is that at least 90% of asylum applicants are bogus, and have no chance of succeeding at their hearings, and the only point of applying in the first place is to get their foot in the door and on a years-long waiting list for a hearing, while in the meantime they settle in the USA and put down roots, or disappear entirely.
The asylum system was not designed for such abuse, and needs to be radically reformed, but there will always be genuine cases, for whom the system was intended, and who should be given it. And a program like this, if administered honestly (which the current administration has no intent of doing) would be useful in the context of such a reformed system.
But SHOULD the government be ‘recruiting’ people to come here and then paying their transportation?
Of course not. Even genuine refugees should be recruited unless it appears that they’ll be an asset to the USA. Otherwise they should be taken in when they pound on the doors, but there’s no call to invite them.
And these “refugees” are almost all fake. Not all, but almost all. So there’s no question that this program is a bad idea and should stop. But the administration wants it, and (so far) it’s entitled to have it. The question of whether it actually has the legal authority for it will be litigated in due course, but in the meantime there’s no bar to it going ahead.
I think you meant, “Even genuine refugees should NOT be recruited unless…”