M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about another scandal revealed about the Biden administration.
While the left goes about its little “Hand Off!” temper tantrum, their leaders have forced Americans to pick up the tab in government benefits for “paroled” illegal immigrants convicted of crimes — even suspected terrorists.
The Biden administration paid out at least $1.3 million in Medicaid, student loans, tax refunds, and other federal government benefits and payments to thousands of paroled aliens with criminal or terrorist records, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“Under the Biden administration, it was routine for [U.S.] Border Patrol to admit aliens into the United States with no legal status and minimal screening,” the government fat trimmer said Friday in an X post.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has identified a subset of 6,300 individuals paroled into the U.S. since 2023 who were included on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center watchlist or who have criminal records, DOGE reported.
“These paroles have since been terminated with immediate effect,” the agency added.
All of the Biden administration parolees cut off had a Social Security number, according to DOGE.
The recipients included:
*905 individuals (including 4 on the terrorist watch list) collecting $276,000 in Medicaid benefits.
*409 who received net tax refunds for (2024 only) for a total of $751,000.
*22 picked up a total of $280,000 in federal student loans
*41 collected Unemployment Insurance, a combined $42,000 in benefits.
Several (final number to be determined) received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamp) benefits.
In total, taxpayers covered nearly $1,350,000 in government payments.
“It is clear that the Biden-Harris administration has intentionally used unlawful mass-parole schemes to shift hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens to ports of entry for release into the interior, often with little or no vetting,” a House Homeland Security Committee report released in October asserts.
