Biden Restarts Embattled Immigration Plan for Cubans, Others

Aug. 29, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

The Department of Homeland Security is restarting an embattled immigration pathway to the US with new security measures in place after previously detecting fraud in the program.

  • Providing temporary status known as parole to select Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans will resume with closer scrutiny of the financial records and criminal background of applicants’ US-based sponsors, as well as broad audits to identify any patterns indicating fraud, DHS announced Thursday
  • Republicans had long criticized the parole program — which President Joe Biden launched in late 2022 and early 2023 and lets in up to 360,000 people a year — as ...

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