During consideration of the fiscal 2025 homeland-security appropriations bill (H.R. 8752), Representative Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) offered an amendment to prohibit funds in the bill from being used for the “Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans” (CHNV) parole program that incentivizes illegal mass migration from those four countries. The program grants work-authorization permits for CHNV parolees despite them lacking visas or a legal right to enter the country. As Grothman noted in support of his amendment, the number of illegal entrants from those four countries apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents increased from 17,500 in fiscal 2020 to more than 600,000 in fiscal 2022 under President Biden, who greatly expanded the program. Additionally, the United States does not receive criminal background checks for CHNV parolees from the four countries.
The House rejected Grothman’s amendment on June 26, 2024 by a vote of 193 to 218 (Roll Call 288). We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the CHNV parole process is an illegally created program, and incentivizes mass migration into the country.
