House Committee Pursues Missing Biden Administration Parole Documents
April 09, 2025
On March 26, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.), and Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement Chairman Michael Guest (R-Miss.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem requesting documents detailing the Biden administration’s unlawful use of parole. The letter follows repeated failures by the Biden administration to satisfy multiple requests and two related subpoenas.
In the letter, the chairmen argue that the Biden administration intentionally blocked congressional efforts to uncover specifics about its mass-parole programs. The chairmen noted that the previous administration’s “lack of transparency created challenges to the Committee’s ability to determine the full extent of the Biden-Harris administration’s use of parole, the fiscal consequences of each individual parole program, and whether the current state of parole requires additional statutory remedies.”
The Biden administration went so far as to ignore multiple subpoenas for information sent by the committee. One subpoena – issued in August 2023, and followed up on in September 2023, called on former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to provide all documents and communications related to the unlawful Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole program. The CHNV program – created by the Biden administration – facilitated the mass entry of approximately 532,000 illegal aliens in clear contravention of the parole statute requiring that aliens only be paroled on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/04/09/house-committee-missing-biden-administration-parole-documents
