Biden admin won’t extend parole for Venezuelan migrants in US via controversial flight program: report

The Biden administration has reportedly decided against extending parole for tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who came to the U.S. done a arguable Biden-era question programme that was temporarily halted owed to discoveries of fraud successful the programme earlier this year.

Officials person decided not to widen parole for Venezuelan nationals who came into the U.S. via the parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV), according to a CBS News report.

The programme was archetypal implemented for Venezuelans successful October 2022 and extended to the different nationalities successful January 2023. It allows migrants to usage the CBP One app to participate the U.S. connected impermanent parole and person a enactment licence if they walk inheritance checks and person a sponsor.

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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks astatine the regular property briefing astatine the White House connected July 15, 2024, successful Washington, D.C.  (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Through the extremity of August 2024, nearly 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans arrived lawfully connected commercialized flights and were granted parole nether these processes, nearly 117,000 Venezuelans.

The programme has received furious absorption from Republicans, immoderate of whom person described the medication arsenic moving migrant flights, but nether this program, migrants indispensable signifier their ain travel.

However, the programme was paused concisely successful August erstwhile an internal report unearthed ample amounts of fraud successful applications of those sponsoring the program. It aboriginal unfroze the programme aft installing what it said were further vetting and protections against fraud.

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It was expected that the medication would widen the parole status, arsenic it has done with different parole populations, but CBS reported that DHS has decided against it, and Venezuelans would beryllium told to either use for different migration presumption oregon permission the state -- though Venezuela is presently not accepting deportations from the U.S. It is besides unclear if the medication intends to halt bringing successful caller migrants via the program. DHS did not respond to a petition for comment.

If they arrived earlier July 2023, they whitethorn beryllium eligible for Temporary Protected Status, which the Biden medication redesignated and extended for Venezuelans past year.

The presumption of the different 3 nationalities volition statesman to expire successful January adjacent twelvemonth if the medication makes a akin determination not to widen their parole status.

The determination volition apt infuriate migration activists, who person cried foul arsenic the medication has moved distant from much wide policies arsenic the predetermination approaches. The medication threw its value down a bipartisan borderline information measure this twelvemonth that would person allowed for a bounds to beryllium placed connected asylum entries and fixed further backing to borderline agencies. 

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Border Patrol picks up a radical of asylum seekers from an assistance campy astatine the US-Mexico borderline adjacent Sasabe, Arizona, connected Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (Justin Hamel/Getty Images)

When that measure failed to pass, President Biden signed an bid limiting asylum entries successful June, which was followed by a crisp driblet successful arrivals astatine the borderline by much than 50%, starring to numbers little than thing during the existent administration. 

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The medication has besides touted an summation successful removals. Biden followed that up with a "parole successful place" strategy for amerciable migrant spouses of U.S. citizens. But successful the past week, helium announced caller measures to forestall that bounds connected arrivals astatine the borderline from being lifted.

It comes arsenic Vice President Harris battles with erstwhile President Donald Trump implicit who is the tougher campaigner connected borderline security. Harris has accused Trump of failing to backmost the borderline information measure for governmental reasons, portion Trump has accused Harris of being liable for the situation astatine the border.

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Polling shows it to beryllium a apical 2024 contented for voters, with galore polls showing Trump holding a important pb implicit Harris connected the topic.