Under President Biden’s controversial border policy, migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela who obtain a US sponsor, pass a background check and demonstrate that parole is warranted based on significant public benefit or urgent humanitarian reasons are allowed to fly into US ports of entry, where they will receive work permits and authorization to remain in the country for two years.

The Department of Homeland Security has processed more than 400,000 migrants via the mass parole program.

The documents from DHS obtained by the House Homeland Security Committee cover some 200,000 migrant arrivals over a period from January to August 2023.

These are the top 15 cities that individuals who qualified for the so-called CHNV program flew into during that eight-month span:

1) Miami, Fla.: 91,821

2) Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.: 60,461

3) New York City, NY: 14,827

4) Houston, Texas: 7,923

5) Orlando, Fla.: 6,043

6) Los Angeles, Calif.: 3,271

7) Tampa, Fla.: 3,237

8) Dallas, Texas: 2,256

9) San Francisco, Calif.: 2,052

8) Dallas, Texas: 2,256

10) Atlanta, Ga.: 1,796

11) Newark, NJ: 1,498

12) Washington, DC: 1,472

13) Chicago, Ill.: 496

14) Las Vegas, Nev.: 483

15) Austin, Texas: 171

The House panel said the DHS documents also revealed that there were some 1.6 million migrants waiting for approval to fly into the US via the parole program as of October 2023.