\uf0b7Migrants applying to receive humanitarian parole in the U.S. can be in a safe third country before they apply, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
\n\uf0b7President Joe Biden announced the beginning of the program in January to allow migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti to qualify for the program if they have a sponsor in the U.S. after record encounters at the southern border.
\n\uf0b7\u201cOur clients, some of them, they just arrived to a third country. Let\u2019s say they buy a plane ticket,\u201d Immigration attorney Maria Herrera Mellado told the DCNF, adding \u201cIt happened. They just happen to be in the Dominican Republic or [on a] short vacation.\u201d
\nA massive loophole exists in the Biden administration\u2019s latest program to admit certain migrants into the U.S. has a massive loophole that allows for applicants to be in another safe country before when they apply, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
\nPresident Joe Biden announced in January the process for Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to apply for humanitarian parole as illegal immigrants from those countries surged the border. Immigration attorney Maria Herrera Mellado told the DCNF that she\u2019s had clients approved for the program while in safe third countries, and one from Venezuela who has a pending application while vacationing in Mexico.
\n\u201cOur clients, some of them, they just arrived to a third country. Let\u2019s say they buy a plane ticket,\u201d Herrera Mellado told the DCNF, adding \u201cIt happened. They just happen to be in the Dominican Republic or [on a] short vacation.\u201d
\n\u201cAt the end of the day, a lot of people who are coming here are not the ones who are in great need to come here. They happened to be in another country and they have a wealthy immediate relative,\u201d she said.
\nFormer acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan believes the loophole is illegal, he told the DCNF.
\n\u201cYou could be anywhere and still apply for parole, even though they\u2019re in a safe third country, which is yet another example of why we say this is a perversion, violation of the law that they\u2019re using as a shell game to claim victory that they\u2019re addressing the crisis,\u201d Morgan said.
\nThe revelation comes as the Biden administration plans to implement a rule disqualifying migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. who already passed through other countries deemed to be safe to reside.
\nIf Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian or Nicaraguan migrants cross illegally into the U.S., they will be expelled immediately under Title 42, a Trump-era public health order used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The new process requires that the parolees have a sponsor in the U.S. to support them financially for the two years they\u2019re allowed live in the U.S.
\nU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) didn\u2019t respond to multiple requests for comment to provide data on how many parolees have been in safe third countries. The agency\u2019s website, however, does state that it is a disqualifier if a parole applicant is a resident, dual national or refugee of another country, but not so if you are the immediate family member of a Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, or Venezuelan and you are living in another country.
\n\u201cAn individual is ineligible to be considered for parole under these processes if that person is a dual national or permanent resident of, or holds refugee status in, another country, unless DHS operates a similar parole process for the country\u2019s nationals. This requirement does not apply to immediate family members (spouse, common-law partner, or unmarried child under the age of 21) of an eligible national of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, or Venezuela with whom they are traveling,\u201d USCIS states on its website outlining the parole guidelines.
\nHerrera Mellado, however, believes there are exceptions to that rule, which allows for 30,000 migrants from the four applicable nationalities to receive parole each month, which USCIS will likely grant.
\n\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure we\u2019re going to get lots of people now with that situation. People either claim they have a second nationality. And how is this government gonna know that they don\u2019t?,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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