Day: September 11, 2024

September 11, 2024 by Joseph Klein 6 Comments

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Despite the discovery of widespread fraud, the Biden-Harris administration decided to resume its mass migrant parole sponsorship program under which hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have already been allowed into the United States. As the Center for Immigration Studies explained, “To hide the massive increase in illegal Venezuelan entrants, the administration implemented a parole program for nationals of that country in October 2022, which it expanded in January 2023 to Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan nationals as well — the CHNV parole program. Under that program, up to 30,000 inadmissible nationals of those four countries are allowed to enter per month, on two-year periods of parole.”

Now, after a brief pause, many more thousands of migrants from these countries will be flown into the United States and remain in the country under the CHNV parole program. There is no effective way to vet them because identifying data is either not available or is deliberately withheld by the countries where these migrants came from. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is clueless as to who the migrants really are or whether they have a criminal background. And even if the sponsors who originally come forward to assume responsibility for the CHNV migrants appear to be legitimate after some vetting, they may just be fronts for criminal gang members who will take over as “sponsors.”

The Biden-Harris administration is cynically using its CHNV parole program as a convenient means to get around the nation’s immigration law restrictions and bring into the country up to 30,000 migrants a month. These migrants are not counted in calculating the number of migrants entering the country illegally for the purposes of enforcing the daily limit on the number of such entrants stipulated in President Biden’s loophole laden executive order. It is a smoke and mirrors program designed to expand so-called “lawful pathways” for migration, artificially lowering the total of migrants who are classified as illegal immigrants.

The Biden-Harris administration by executive order is conferring so-called “legal” status on immigrants who cut in line in front of those who are patiently going through the legal process the normal way to reside in this country. To add insult to injury, CHNV migrants privileged by the Biden-Harris administration with special status become eligible to receive some welfare benefits that lawful permanent residents are entitled to receive.

There are no reliable public statistics on how many of the CHNV parolees have been charged with serious crimes after settling in the U.S. But there is some disturbing anecdotal evidence. We do know, for example, that a Haitian national admitted to the U.S. at the invitation of the Biden-Harris administration allegedly raped a disabled 15-year-old girl in Massachusetts. Another Haitian national admitted to the U.S. under a related Biden-Harris parole program is alleged to have committed second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter in New York.

Even one homicide and one rape by immigrants admitted to the U.S. under the Biden-Harris administration’s mass parole program are one homicide and one rape too many. They could have been avoided if the administration had not opened America’s front door to violent immigrants under legally questionable parole programs.

In any event, CHNV is the Biden-Harris administration’s more formal way of manipulating the immigration system to allow hordes of immigrants into the country who do not deserve to be here without any credible vetting. The administration’s informal way is its catch-and-release policy that has freed millions of apprehended illegal immigrants from living in cities and towns all over the country, also with virtually no vetting. Among the illegal immigrants whose border agents were released because of this insane policy are highly dangerous Tren de Aragua gang members from Venezuela – the same country that is included in the Biden-Harris CHNV parole program.

In other words, the Biden-Harris administration is providing two ways for Tren de Aragua gang members from Venezuela to enter the U.S. – the so-called “lawful pathway” through the mass parole program or exploiting catch-and-release by pretending to be asylum-seekers. Either way, Tren de Aragua is wreaking havoc in New York City, Denver, Chicago, and other U.S. cities. Murders, drug trafficking, extortion, human smuggling, trafficking of women for sexual exploitation, kidnapping, forceful seizures of residential properties, kidnappings, and other vicious crimes are Tren de Aragua’s stock in trade. The gang’s leaders have given members the green light to shoot at police officers trying to stop their criminal activities. Some members did not bother waiting for their leaders to give permission before shooting police officers in New York City.

The Biden-Harris administration finally designated Tren de Aragua as a transnational criminal organization in July of this year and imposed sanctions on its property interests in the United States. While this long-awaited action is a positive development, it will not be nearly enough to stop the gang’s network in the U.S. from continuing its crime spree and expanding. Nor will it deter other gang members from taking advantage of the Biden-Harris administration’s lax border policies and entering the United States illegally.

Donald Trump has announced that if elected president, he will undertake mass deportation, beginning with the violent criminals the Biden-Harris administration allowed into the U.S. who represent a major security threat. What would Kamala Harris do about Tren de Aragua gang members and other violent criminals the Biden-Harris administration allowed into the U.S. if she was elected president? We do not know because the media has given her a free ride.

Donald Trump also supports protecting the integrity of U.S. elections from fraudulent voting by illegal immigrants. He supports the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE), which requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections. The bill, which the House of Representatives passed in July, also requires states to remove noncitizens from their official lists of eligible voters.

The Biden-Harris administration denounced the SAVE bill. “It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in Federal elections — it is a federal crime punishable by prison and fines,” the White House said in a statement. “The alleged justification for this bill is based on easily disproven falsehoods.”

Immigrants who have entered the U.S. illegally see how little the Biden-Harris administration bothers to enforce the nation’s laws against them. At least some of them may well be tempted to self-attest to being U.S. citizens under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 if the price they receive for their fraudulent votes is high enough. The SAVE Act is another defense against voter fraud. Even one vote for president or Congress by an illegal immigrant cancels out a legitimate vote by a real U.S. citizen.

To obtain a U.S. passport, an individual must show documentary proof of U.S. citizenship as well as proof of identity. Yet, it is too much for the Biden-Harris administration to require comparable proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in a federal election. In fact, the Biden-Harris administration even opposes requiring something as simple as government-issued voter identification before an individual can cast a ballot. Too burdensome, they say, even though everything from getting on an airplane to opening a bank account requires government-issued identification.

Despite requiring folks entering her campaign rally event in Arizona recently to present government-issued ID before being admitted, Vice President Harris has opposed requiring the presentation of a government-issued ID to vote. Voter ID can prevent voter fraud and help weed out illegal immigrants who attempt to vote in a federal election. Of course, even that modest fraud prevention measure would not work in Minnesota where Harris’s running mate, Governor Tim Walsh, signed a bill into law allowing illegal immigrants to obtain state driver’s licenses. In any event, Minnesota does not have a state voter ID requirement.

Where does Kamala Harris stand on federal legislation that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in a federal election? How about at least requiring voters nation-wide to present valid government-issued identification to be able to vote in a federal election? Will she flip-flop from opposing to supporting these proposals, as she has done on so many other issues such as claiming to support funding for further work on Trump’s border wall that she has previously condemned as “un-American?”

The mainstream media continues to let Kamala Harris get away with obfuscating her current positions on many policies of importance to the American people as well as getting away with not having to provide credible explanations for her flip-flops. It is a purposeful tactic to help the Democrats’ nominee for president conceal from voters Kamala Harris’s pro-illegal immigrant policies and other left-wing agenda items she would pursue as president.