Organized and blatant fraud has forced President Joe Biden’s border chief to temporarily close his supposedly legal “parole pipelines” for 360,000 job-seeking migrants per year from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Biden’s deputies “claimed it was safe and legal,” said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which exposed the fraud. “Their own investigation indicates that it was riddled with fraud and poses risks to the American public.”

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The pipelines were created by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration and impeached border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. In June 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris touted his policy of creating “orderly and humane” migration paths to the United States.

Since October 2022, Mayorkas’s pipelines have already brought in roughly 520,000 people for the jobs and wages that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans. The inflow included people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Roughly 200,000 people — including many police and medical experts– were pulled from Haiti, further destabilizing the unstable nation. Mayorkas’s legal excuse was that migrants would stop crossing the border illegally if they were allowed to do so legally.

The CHNV pipelines were quietly shut in mid-July following an internal investigation into the rampant fraud, which was similar to the rampant fraud seen in the H-1B visa program. Some of the fraud was conducted by “immigrants in the country temporarily,” the Washington Postreported.

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But the fraud was among the sponsors, many of whom sought money from migrants in exchange for seeking parole visas on their behalf.

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FAIR described the agency’s internal report about the open and unchallenged fraud:

The applications, which are submitted electronically [by sponsors], are not assessed by typical adjudicators but rather, are reviewed by personnel who simply deem the application sufficient. According to the report, of the total 2.6 million received, nearly 529,000 applications were “confirmed” (or approved) and around 118,000 were “not confirmed” (or denied).

Many sponsors submitted multiple sponsorships, similar to the H-1B fraud, where migrants paid corrupt executives to sponsor them for work permits:

The report reveals that the 100 IP addresses accounted for 51,133 of the Form I-134A applications submitted. In one example, an IP address located in Tijuana, Mexico, was used 1,328 times. The report states that, on average, each IP address associated with these programs submitted 2.2 application forms ….  the report states that “One sponsor phone number was reported on over 2,000 forms submitted by 200 different sponsors.”  Further, “[o]ne parolee phone number was reported on 626 different forms and was associated with 238 different parolee last names and 142 different parolee addresses.” …  the most frequently used sponsor e-mail address was listed on 363 different forms. Further, the most frequently used parolee e-mail address was listed on 1,723 different forms collectively submitted by 477 different sponsors.

The sponsors submitted fraudulent information, or refused to submit needed information:

Sponsors often did not provide their income (even though the sponsor is financially required to support the alien).  Sponsors that did provide their incomes “often [did] not meet the financial threshold to support the number of parolees they intend to sponsor.” The report also highlights that applicants used SSNs of deceased individuals, and states that “24 of the 1,000 most used sponsor SSNs belong to a deceased individual.” … In one instance, the same answer was used 4,978 times, while a slightly different variation of the answer (using “she” versus “he”) was used 2,837 times, and another slightly different variation of the answer (using “the”) was used another 2,557 times … the report highlights the use of fraudulent Social Security Numbers (SSN). The report shows that aliens often used similar SSNs – such as “111111111” or “123456789” or “666666666” – proving that fraudulent data was being brazenly provided to the government.

Many sponsors brought in many migrants:

The report discusses how physical addresses were used over and over. It states there were 100 addresses used between 124 and 739 times on unique forms – and these 100 addresses were associated with 19,062 forms. The properties associated with the addresses on the forms include mobile home parks, warehouses, storage units, apartment complexes and commercial properties. The review found that 739 forms used the address from a single mobile home park, another 596 were attributable to a single warehouse, and 501 had an address to a storage unit.

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The legality of the program has not been settled. A federal judge in Texas invited Attorneys General to refile a lawsuit against the program after blocking their first lawsuit because it did not claim the program inflicted more costs on the states than a comparable amount of illegal migration.

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