(AmericanProsperity.com) – The Biden Administration is restarting an immigration program that would allow immigrants from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to come into the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security suspended the program earlier this month in order to investigate concerns but their review showed that there were no fraud concerns.
Said the DHS, “Together with our existing rigorous vetting of potential beneficiaries seeking to travel to the United States, these new procedures for supporters have strengthened the integrity of these processes and will help protect against exploitation of beneficiaries.”
The program launched in 2023 and became a large part of Biden’s immigration policies that helped to create an expanded pathway for legal entry. This is aimed more at countries that send large amounts of people to the United States.
With this program, the United States accepts thirty thousand people a month from the four countries and offers eligibility to work in the United States. For immigrants to qualify for this, they must have a financial sponsor in the United States who vouches for them, and they must fly into an American airport instead of going across the border.
There has been criticism around the program specifically from Republicans. “Instead of scrapping the clearly flawed program, the department is allowing it to continue without rooting out the fraud or putting adequate safeguards in place to prevent exploitation by sponsors here in the United States. But fundamentally, there would be no fraud to prevent if DHS simply stopped importing 30,000 inadmissible aliens every month in the first place,” Republican Rep. Mark Green said.
The Department of Homeland Security said that this additional vetting for the program would also include more scrutiny of the financial records that U.S. sponsors are required to submit.
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