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Ken Cuccinelli’s blunt charge on The Will Cain Show—that the Biden team handed out permits “like candy”—isn’t theater; it’s a warning from a career homeland security official about a policy that shredded the rule of law. Working Americans watched as bureaucrats in Washington treated our immigration system like a giveaway, and the results have been predictable and dangerous.
A federal review makes the scale painfully clear: DHS paroled roughly three quarters of a million noncitizens through a series of supporter-based parole programs, yet left no coherent plan to make those temporary stays temporary. Government watchdogs found there was no defined process to track expirations or to initiate enforcement when parole periods ended, creating a looming population that could easily slip into unlawful presence.
The largest of those programs—CHNV for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans—alone brought in more than a half million people and handed out work authorizations and other benefits that compete with American workers. This wasn’t compassionate triage; it was a categorical rewriting of immigration policy that let people enter en masse without the congressional permission that secures our borders and our jobs.
It gets worse: independent audits and inspectors found rampant fraud risks and weak vetting across these processes, with sponsors and applications that raised red flags but still advanced through the system. The GAO and DHS OIG flagged internal control failures and warned that these fast-tracked programs were exploited—exactly what happens when rules are relaxed and priorities are political.
When the Trump DHS moved to terminate the CHNV program, the move set off legal battles that exposed how lawless the original scheme had been and how difficult it is to unwind once in motion. Courts and political operatives fought over who gets to decide whether parole can be handed out en masse, but the real victims are citizens left with eroded trust in institutions meant to protect them.
Cuccinelli’s outrage should be our outrage: America is not a charity to be doled out by whim, and the people in office are supposed to protect our citizens first. Republicans in Congress and conservative state leaders must demand full audits, accountability for officials who authorized these mass paroles, and a return to case-by-case, lawful parole practices that honor both compassion and sovereignty.
The lesson is simple and stark: open-border improvisation costs jobs, public safety, and public trust. Patriots must press leaders to stop political giveaways, secure the border, and restore an immigration system that serves Americans before it serves political theater.
