Thousands of immigrants who have criminal records or were found to be on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center watchlist are having privileges revoked by the Trump administration. A senior White House official told the Daily Caller that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has identified 6,300 individuals who were paroled into the United States since 2023 under the Biden administration but were found to have either criminal records or appear on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center list.
The official, who spoke to the Daily Caller on condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet publicly announced, confirmed that each of these individuals is now having their parole status—and associated federal benefits—revoked.
“Among the 6.3k paroled aliens with criminal or terrorist records, 905 were collecting Medicaid (including 4 on the terrorist watch list). $276,000 was paid out,” the official told the Daily Caller, adding that all of them had Social Security numbers. “41 were collecting Unemployment Insurance, receiving $42,000 in benefits. 22 received federal student loans totaling $280,000.”
The revocations come amid the Trump administration’s scrutiny of the Biden administration’s irresponsible use of humanitarian parole programs. The program in question, known as CHNV, allowed entry to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. In total, around half a million individuals were flown into the United States through this initiative, which has now been terminated by the Trump administration.
In March, termination notices began going out to hundreds of thousands of migrants who had entered the U.S. under the CHNV program. The effort to roll back the program comes as the Trump administration reasserts control over border policy, citing national security and economic concerns.
“They allowed more than half a million loosely vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members to enter the United States through these disastrous parole programs; granted them opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers; forced career civil servants to promote the programs even when fraud was identified; and then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed,” a senior Department of Homeland Security official previously said.
Treason is a capita offense and I believe it should be applied to the Biden family and to the senior officials who administered this treasonous activity. A firing squad would be a fitting means to administer the punishment. It would also set a good example of what will happen to anyone who would commit such heinous acts in the future.