Biden-Harris initiative could be giving well over $1 billion in federal benefits to Haitian migrants
By Joe Hutchison and Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com
Published: 01:28 EDT, 14 September 2024 | Updated: 10:38 EDT, 14 September 2024
A Biden administration migrant welfare program could be handing out in excess of $1 billion in benefits to those crossing the Southern Border.
The CHNV program has allowed hundreds of thousands of nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the US.
It allows 30,000 migrants to apply for asylum each month and be flown to the US on the taxpayer dollar, as long as they have a sponsor who passes a background check.
The undocumented migrants are given a two-year grace period to obtain status and in the meantime can live and work lawfully in the country on 'humanitarian parole.'
According to figures from Border Protection, over 520,000 migrants from the four countries were paroled into the US between January 2023 and June of this year.
This was broken down into 109,000 Cubans, 205,000 Haitians, 90,000 Nicaraguans, and 115,000 Venezuelans.
Haitians and Cubans that are involved with the program are immediately eligible for taxpayer-funded federal benefits like Medicaid, food stamps and welfare.
Analysis by DailyMail.com indicates that the Medicaid cost, which costs around $9,175 per enrollee, would cost $1.8 billion if every Haitian who entered the country received it.
SNAP benefits, more commonly known as food stamps, would cost the country $451 million, with general welfare benefits climbing to $1.2 billion.
The three figures take the overall spend on benefits only to over an eyewatering $3.4 billion.
Even if only a quarter of the Haitians are getting all the benefits they are entitled to receive, that figure would stand at $850 million.
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