Biden-Era Immigration Programs Received Thousands of Fraudulent Applications: GAO Report

Federal immigration policies led to thousands of fraudulent applications being submitted when 774,000 noncitizens were granted parole from May 2022 through September 2024, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The humanitarian parole program, under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was led by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from 2021 to 2025, granted noncitizens temporary permission to stay in the United States if they had a sponsor. However, thousands of applications and their sponsors were tied to crime or had counterfeit documents that used information by unwitting—and sometimes dead—U.S. citizens, the report showed. “The findings are unsurprising and confirm that [President] Joe Biden’s open border policy prioritized aliens—including many fraudsters and violent criminals—over the safety of the American people,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) spokesman Matthew J. Tragesse said in a statement to The Epoch Times on Dec. 18....