CRISIS BY DESIGN: Expert blasts Biden admin for reviving immigration program shut down for ‘mass fraud’: All about ‘optics.’
The comment comes as the Biden administration reportedly looks to revive a program that has allowed tens of thousands of migrants from four nations to fly directly into the U.S. despite the program being paused last month for what NBC News reported as “mass fraud.”
The program allowed migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to apply for entry and temporary work authorization with the support of a sponsor who pledged to financially back the migrants once they arrived in the United States.
But the program was “temporarily paused” last month to allow the Department of Homeland Security to conduct “a review of supporter applications” of “sponsors,” with an initial review finding that 3,218 of the roughly 101,000 applications were filed by “serial sponsors” who raise suspicion by sponsoring several migrants from the same street addresses, IP addresses or phone numbers.
The White House has promised more “fraud checks” this time around but that’s a laugh.