MIAMI — The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday defended a parole process that allows up to 30,000 Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans monthly to come to the United States, following a legal challenge from Florida’s governor and those of 19 other Republican-led states.
“It is remarkable to me that states will attack a solution to the problem about which they complain,” said Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of DHS, during a press conference Monday at the Little Haiti Cultural Center with Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis joined Texas and 18 other states in challenging the Biden administration’s two-year parole program. A federal judge has yet to hear the case, but the challenge has created panic in the communities that would benefit out of fear the court could halt the program.
