ICE agents have arrested a Haitian migrant, released through a now-defunct parole program, who is accused of raping a young girl in Massachusetts, raising questions about the program's oversight.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested a Haitian migrant who had been released into the United States through a controversial parole program and is now accused of raping a young girl.
Cory Alvarez, 26, was arrested and charged in March, then indicted for the aggravated rape of a child under 16 in Rockland, Massachusetts. Despite prosecutors' requests for a $25,000 bail, the Plymouth County Superior Court released Alvarez in June on just $500 bail.
This week, ICE agents took Alvarez into federal custody. According to police, Alvarez had been staying in a taxpayer-funded migrant shelter in Massachusetts, a sanctuary state, when he invited a 15-year-old girl to his room under the pretext of helping her with her tablet. Instead, he allegedly raped her as she tried to resist.
Alvarez was one of the half a million migrants who benefited from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s now-defunct parole program, known as the CHNV program, which was shut down by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) due to widespread fraud.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and immigration subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) have requested information from DHS on how Alvarez was permitted entry into the U.S. through this program. It remains unclear whether DHS has responded to the inquiry.
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