House Republicans are demanding answers about massive fraud in a Biden-Harris immigration program.
The scandal could further complicate the Harris campaign's already outlandish efforts to paint Harris as tough on the border.
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are demanding documents about the administration's decision to pause the CHNV program, which allowed 30,000 migrants per month into the United States from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
An internal report obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found massive fraud by the program's sponsors.
The Biden-Harris administration had long touted the program as a "safe" and "orderly" way for migrants to claim asylum without crossing the border illegally.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have been admitted through the program, which Republicans have long criticized as unlawful and a ploy to improve optics at the southern border.
An internal investigation by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) found that sponsors used the same 100 physical addresses for 19,000 forms.
Many sponsors used fake zip codes and Social Security numbers, including numbers belonging to dead people.
"Out of an abundance of caution, DHS has temporarily paused the issuance of advanced travel authorizations for new beneficiaries while it undertakes a review of supporter applications,” a spokesperson told the New York Post.
Reps. Mark Green (R-TN), Clay Higgins (R-LA), and Dan Bishop (R-NC) want to know exactly when the program was suspended, what the current backlog of applications looks like, and what internal process the Department was using to catch fraudulent applications.
The Homeland Security Committee is demanding documents after Department representatives failed to answer "even basic questions" at an August 5 briefing.
"The internal investigation also purportedly reveals that 2,839 sponsor forms contained non-existent zip codes and 4,590 forms were filled out with Alien file numbers that had never been issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)," they wrote.
House Republicans are ramping up investigations into Kamala Harris' role overseeing immigration, a top issue in the upcoming presidential election in which Harris is the Democratic candidate.
With help from sympathetic media, Harris has been posing as tough on the border, despite record illegal crossings under the current administration.
A number of violent criminals, including murderers and rapists, have been identified as beneficiaries of the Biden administration's mass parole policies.
