Fox News national correspondent Matt Finn reports on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' reaction to the Biden administration's parole and release program for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on 'Special Report.'
At the end of August, the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) restarted a messy immigration program it had paused a month earlier due to fraud concerns.
An internal DHS report found in mid-July that the CHNV (Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans) parole program was overrun with fraud.
The program allows up to 30,000 nationals from those four countries to enter the United States each month if sponsored by a person or entity inside the country. But DHS discovered that thousands of the sponsors for these migrants had listed fake Social Security numbers, home addresses or phone numbers.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on stage at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
According to the report, over 100,000 sponsor application forms were filled out by just 3,218 sponsors. The same credentials were used over and over – hundreds of times in some cases. Twenty-four of the 1,000 most used numbers on sponsor application forms........