James Keivom
Surprise, surprise: Team Biden has halted a program that flies migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela into the United States after the Department of Homeland Security uncovered massive fraud by the program’s applicants.
Gee, did anyone really think there wouldn’t be fraud?
This is a program, mind you, that never got congressional authorization and violates laws already on the books.
Yet, despite the patently obvious likelihood of fraud, President Biden and border czar Kamala Harris went ahead with it anyway, flying in nearly half a million people since October 2022.
Now a review by DHS’s Citizenship and Immigration Services found that possibly tens of thousands of applications from migrants’ “sponsors” contained fraudulent info — the same addresses, for example, used by many of them, fake Social Security numbers and Zip codes and even the same verbatim answers to questions.
Hello? Migrants have risked their lives making treacherous journeys through dangerous terrain and dealing with the most ruthless criminals to get here. Resorting to fraud is a no-brainer.
Heck, even their asylum claims have been proven to be bogus: When asked, migrants openly admit they want to relocate to America not because they’ve being persecuted or they’re lives are in danger back home — as required for asylum — but for better economic opportunities.
Now that CIS has documented fraud, and on a massive level, the program has been frozen. Great.
But here’s the kicker: Homeland Security wants to start it back up again right away, supposedly with measures to guard against more fraud: “DHS will restart application processing as quickly as possible, with appropriate safeguards,” a spokesperson said.
What is wrong these people? Why must this flawed, ill-conceived, unfair, illegal program be restarted?
Are Biden, Harris & Co. really that desperate to flood in as many people as fast as possible, allowing them to cut the line, overwhelm cities and flout Congress?
If Team Biden thinks these people really deserve to be here, let them persuade lawmakers to create a legal pathway. (And good luck with that.)
Their refusal to do that is just one more reason they need to be replaced.