Biden Admin Pauses Migrant Flight Program Amid Reports Of Massive Fraud

From the Daily Caller News Foundation

The Biden administration has pumped the brakes on a controversial program that has flown hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country following an internal report of rampant fraud.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paused a mass-parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, otherwise known as CHNV, a spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Friday. Since its creation under the Biden administration, the CHNV program has allowed thousands of migrants from these countries to legally enter the U.S. each month after meeting certain parole guidelines.

“Out of an abundance of caution, DHS has temporarily paused the issuance of advanced travel authorizations for new beneficiaries while it undertakes a review of supporter applications,” a DHS spokesperson told the DCNF. “DHS will restart application processing as quickly as possible, with appropriate safeguards.”

The spokesperson noted that DHS takes fraud “very seriously” and added that wherever fraud is uncovered “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will investigate and litigate applicable cases in immigration court and make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.”

Fox News first reported on DHS’ decision to put a hold on the CHNV program.

The internal report was obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a Washington, D.C.-based group that advocates for more strict immigration policies.

The report found that 100,948 forms had been filled out by just 3,218 sponsors; 24 of the 1,000 most used Social Security numbers by sponsors belonged to a dead person; and an IP address located in Tijuana, Mexico was used more than 1,300 times, among other examples.

Additionally, many sponsors did not list their income, and those that did reveal their income did not meet financial threshold to support the number of parolees they intended to sponsor.

“This admission by the Biden-Harris administration vindicates every warning we have ever issued about the unlawful CHNV mass-parole program,” House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green stated about the internal audit. “It also exposes the lie by administration officials, like now-impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas, about the quality and extent of the vetting process — not just for the inadmissible aliens seeking entry, but those attempting to sponsor them.”

“This is exactly what happens when you create an unlawful mass-parole program in order to spare your administration the political embarrassment and bad optics of overrun borders,” Green continued. “The Biden-Harris administration should terminate the CHNV program immediately.”

The CHNV program was first announced for Venezuelans in October 2022, allowing a limited number of them to travel into the U.S. if they had not previously entered the country illegally, had an American sponsor and passed other vetting processes. The Biden administration expanded the program in January 2023 to include Haitians, Nicaraguans and Cubans, giving them work permits and two-year authorization to reside in the U.S.

Roughly half a million inadmissible aliens have arrived at U.S. ports of entry through the CHNV program since January 2023, according to the House Homeland Security Committee.

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HUD Secretary Says Illegals May No Longer ‘Live In Taxpayer-Funded Housing’

Published on August 30, 2025

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By Hailey Gomez

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner said Friday on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” that illegal immigrants may no longer “live in taxpayer-funded housing.”

In March, Turner and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the “American Housing Programs for American Citizens,” ending “the wasteful misappropriation of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegal aliens instead of American citizens.” Discussing how HUD plans to prevent illegal migrants from living in public housing, Turner said the department has already issued a letter to the D.C. Housing Authority requesting its full list of residents and those without U.S. citizenship.

“President Trump is serious not only in cleaning up the crime in our streets, but also American citizens will be prioritized when it comes to living in HUD-funded, government-funded housing,” Turner said. “We just sent out a letter to the D.C. Housing Authority, and it has been received by them. And, as you said, they have 30 days to give us a full, comprehensive account of everyone living inside of D.C. housing that are receiving Section 8 vouchers or any type of HUD funding.”

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“We want the names, the address, the number of people in the unit, the size of the unit, the cost of the unit. And they must give us their American citizenship status or eligible immigration status. No longer will we allow illegal aliens to live in taxpayer-funded housing here in America. In the last administration, in the Biden administration, they turned a blind eye. They didn’t collect the data,” Turner added. “But those days are over. We are collecting the data to make sure they’re illegal aliens. And for that criminal activity, no one doing criminal activity is living in HUD-funded housing, which is literally on the backs of taxpayers in America.”

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Pew: U.S. immigrant population declines for first time in nearly 60 years

Published on August 22, 2025

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By Caroline Boda

The U.S.’s foreign-born population shrunk this year for the first time since the 1960s, new data released Thursday from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found.

After rapidly growing for more than 50 years, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. reached a record high of 53.3 million in January 2025. The following months showed a decline of nearly 1.5 million, a likely mark of President Donald Trump’s second-term immigration policies.

The new Pew study shows that more people are leaving the U.S. than are entering it, the first time this has happened in more than half a century.

The analysis also found that the number of noncitizens in the U.S. illegally reached a record high of 14 million in 2023, a trend which Trump routinely drew on while campaigning against his opponents in the 2024 presidential race, first former President Joe Biden and then former Vice President Kamala Harris.

A nationwide crackdown on immigration has been a central part of Trump’s second-term policy agenda. He has signed 181 executive orders relating to immigration since returning to the White House in January. The administration has implemented its immigration policies through mass deportations of noncitizens, incentivizing self deportations, heightened security at the U.S.’s southwestern border and by toughening up student visa requirements.

These policies were reflected in Pew’s data, which found that the percent of the U.S. population made up of immigrants shrunk to 15.4% in June from 15.8% in January.

Immigrants, both lawful and unlawful, make up a sizable portion of the U.S. workforce. Pew’s report shows that the U.S. lost more than 750,000 workers since January with the percent of immigrants in the workforce declining from 20% to 19% in six months.

Economists say the strain a declining workforce will have on the U.S. economy is contingent on the scope of Trump’s immigration policies during the latter half of his second term. If current trends continue, the U.S. is likely to face economic challenges stemming from the significant decline in workers.