SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- In a letter sent to the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris, 25 governors they demanded show the location and legal status of all beneficiaries of the parole humanitarian, just over a month after the Advance Travel Authorizations (ATA) were reestablished for beneficiaries of the parole, after being suspended for allegations of fraud.
In the letter, they stated that there is no information about the sponsors of the migrants or their location and employment status, “state and local law enforcement agencies are extremely limited in their abilities to investigate the possible exploitation of beneficiaries of parole and the possibility of them being victims of human trafficking.”
“As chief executives of our states, directly responsible for the security of our citizens and those who reside within our borders, we demand from the Biden-Harris Administration and DHS full accountability for the location and legal status of populations. on parole in our states,” they wrote.
They also demanded information about the security investigation that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims to have carried out on each beneficiary de parole: “We ask for the names and locations of the sponsors who have been granted guardianship. We also asked what system DHS has put in place to monitor them and their sponsors and what assistance DHS provides to immigrants.”
The governors alluded to a lack of communication by the administration about the arrival times, duration of residence, legal status and location of these “immigrants on parole,” which has created, in their opinion, “a considerable confusion and alarm among local officials and the general public.”
Without knowledge of the volume of the immigrant population, they said, they cannot measure the impact of these parole beneficiaries “on the already limited public services, including local public schools,” stated in the text signed by the governors of Alabama, Arkansas, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia.
As of the end of August, almost 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans arrived legally and were granted parole by virtue of these processes. However, Washington recently reported that those who receive this parole They will have to find a way to regularize their immigration status, since the permit will not be renewed after two years.
After being suspended in early August following the revelation of an internal report that exposed significant levels of fraud, the authorizations of the parole were reinstated, with increased review of sponsors’ financial records and criminal records, an investigation to uncover profiles of fraudulent sponsors, and more rigorous review mechanisms to detect trends in serial filings.
Also added to the process was the registration of fingerprints of the sponsors in the United States and a background analysis of the possible beneficiaries.
