CV NEWS FEED // According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics released this week, about 1.3 million migrants entered the country under a pair of the Biden-Harris administration’s parole programs since the beginning of last year.
However, per FOX News national correspondent Bill Melugin, these entries are classified as “lawful” and are therefore not included in counting the federal government’s total number of illegal border crossings.
During a Tuesday morning FOX News broadcast, Melugin stated that the Biden-Harris administration “created two new programs [CHNV and the CBP One app] to allow migrants to come into the U.S. legally.”
Melugin stressed that these programs allowed migrants to “bypass border control entirely.”
“Per newly released CBP data, nearly 530,000 migrants have flown into the US,” Melugin reported on X (formerly Twitter) Monday.
He noted that these migrants “have been paroled into the country as part of the Biden administration’s controversial CHNV [Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans] mass parole program.”
Melugin further indicated that approximately “813,000 migrants have scheduled appointments via the CBP One app at ports of entry to be released into the US.”
He explained that since the Biden-Harris parole programs set up “lawful pathways” for migrants to enter the country, “these numbers do not count in Border Patrol data.”
Therefore, these migrants’ crossings into the country are technically not illegal, Melugin elaborated:
Most of the migrants taking part in these programs are paroled into the U.S. on two year humanitarian parole grants, which also allow them to apply to work.
Every single ICE source/contact I’ve spoken with has told me the same thing – they do not have the manpower or resources to find and deport such a large population of people if they overstay these 2 year grants.
The “bottom line” is that “the more than 1 million migrants the Biden admin has allowed into the U.S. via these programs are here to stay,” Melugin wrote, “even if they fall out of status and become unlawfully in the U.S.”
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During the broadcast, Melugin explained that out of the approximately 530,000 migrants flown into the country under CHNV, about 210,000 – just under 40% – were from Haiti.
By comparison, about 117,000 were from Venezuela, 110,000 from Cuba, and 93,000 from Nicaragua.
CHNV and the CBP One phone app are just two of the many Biden-Harris administration initiatives that have been frequently described as migrant parole programs.
As CatholicVote reported in January, two other Biden-Harris parole programs that had by then resulted in more than a quarter of a million migrants entering the country include its Uniting for Ukraine policy and Afghan resettlement effort.
In April, Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Resident Fellow Andrew R. Arthur, wrote that CHNV is
likely the most important administration program you’ve never heard of because not only is it is “obscure”, it’s also vulnerable to exploitation by criminals, traffickers, and grifters, and adds a New Orleans-level of population to the country each year — all through executive fiat.
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Arthur noted that the number of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela entering the country has been “surging” under the Biden-Harris presidency, even before the CHNV program was implemented.
He wrote:
Border Patrol agents at the Southwest border apprehended just 1,227 illegal entrants from Venezuela, 9,822 from Cuba, 4,359 from Haiti, and 2,123 from Nicaragua — 17,531 in total. By FY 2021, Border Patrol apprehensions from those four countries increased more than 10-fold, to 181,000-plus, before skyrocketing to more than 600,000 in FY 2022.
