A Biden administration plan to provide migrants with “humanitarian” commercial flights directly to dozens of U.S. airports has seen endangered migrants flying to the U.S. from some of the world’s richest countries.
Under the Biden administration’s CHNV program, immigrants are pouring in from wealthy European countries like France and Germany, as well as vacation hotspots like the Bahamas and Jamaica, according to data obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
Launched in 2022, the CHNV program allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to fly directly on commercial flights to dozens of U.S. airports, with the goal of providing asylum in the United States to nationals of these countries and their families in response to “emergency humanitarian emergencies.” The “reason” for humanitarian aid.
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According to the CIS report, the program has resulted in more than 460,000 immigrants being flown to the United States, who were granted temporary humanitarian parole, renewable for two years, and issued work permits. Migrants are also believed to be using this time to apply for asylum, although the Immigration Service report states that they are not required to submit asylum applications.
But the list of departure countries used casts doubt on claims that migrants face any imminent danger. In addition to Germany and France, immigrants also fly to the United States from Australia, Iceland, Fiji, Greece, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Other popular vacation hotspots include the Caribbean, Barbados, Martinique, and St. Lucia. St. Christopher, Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
In total, migrants from 77 countries flew to undisclosed U.S. airports, including Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
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“I would argue that these data prove that the parole program is not being used to help aliens escape to safety, but rather as a secondary immigration system that is not authorized by Congress,” said Elizabeth Jacobs, supervisory affairs director for USCIS. Elizabeth Jacobs) said. “The Biden administration may parol aliens who are already ‘firmly established’ in a safe and orderly country but who are still benefiting under the guise of urgent humanitarian or significant public benefit.”
Still, the government defended the program as a humanitarian success and argued it had a “significant public benefit,” noting that the flights made migrants less likely to try to cross the southern border.
But the CIS noted that some departure countries question whether migrants would show up at the U.S. border without the program, arguing instead that the migrants may have resettled in other, safer countries but later chose the U.S. border. .
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Andrew Arthur, a CIS researcher and former immigration judge, said of the data: “This information suggests that these people have been firmly resettled and that if they need to seek protection, they can “If they’re from anywhere other than Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, they’re just trading from the third country they’re from. It doesn’t really have anything to do with the asylum application or anything else.”
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