The House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation Thursday into the Biden Administration’s “Welcome Corps” program, which acts as an avenue for illegal migrants to enter the country via sponsorship from current U.S. citizens.
The letter, obtained exclusively by The Federalist, explained that the committee is concerned about the “potential abuses of the Welcome Corps, which could undermine both national security and the integrity of the U.S. immigration system.”
Welcome Corps Investigation by The Federalist
“Despite allowing more than 7 million illegal aliens into the United States since January 2021, the Biden Administration continues to create avenues to fast track additional aliens into the country,” the letter reads.
The letter cited the Welcome Corps as one of those avenues and noted that “as of May 1, 2024, more than 15,000 private sponsorship applications had been submitted from all 50 states” through the program.
The Biden State Department “acknowledged in a previous briefing with the [Judiciary] Committee, such a massive resettlement program is vulnerable to fraud and exploitation.”
According to the Welcome Corps website, “Working in groups of at least five people, sponsors come together to help refugees transition to life in their new community, all along the way supported by tools and resources from the Welcome Corps as well as ongoing guidance from resettlement experts.”
Addressed to Assistant Secretary Julieta Valls Noyes of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, the committee asked the State Department for additional information regarding the program to hopefully discern the threat it potentially poses
