Case of Massachusetts CHNV Migrant Charged With Rape Takes Strange Turns
Apparently, even ICE can’t get details about the admin’s controversial ‘parole’ program
By Andrew R. Arthur on August 16, 2024
Cory Alvarez
In March, I reported on the arrest of Haitian national Cory Alvarez, who entered under the Biden-Harris administration’s “CHNV” parole program and was then arraigned in state court in Massachusetts on one count of aggravated rape of a 15-year-old girl at a state-funded shelter. The case has taken a few strange turns since, with a state court judge cutting him loose on a low bond and refusing to honor an ICE detainer request, forcing the agency to find Alvarez and take him into custody. Things got really odd, though, once ICE blamed federal officials for a lack of transparency concerning the administration’s CHNV program. I feel the agency’s pain.
Before I continue, though, I note that Alvarez is presumed innocent until proven guilty. I don’t know what evidence the state has presented to prove that he is guilty of the offense, but at this stage I’ll simply observe that a grand jury considered it sufficient to charge him.
A Brief Recap of CHNV. To slow (or hide) a massive surge of Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan illegal migrants at the Southwest border, the White House announced a plan in January 2023 to expand a parole program implemented the previous October for Venezuelan migrants to include nationals of those three countries as well.
The administration refers to the program as the “CHNV parole processes”, an acronym for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and it allowed up 30,000 nationals of those four countries to enter the United States per month (360,000 per annum) on two-year periods of “parole”.
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