Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested a migrant, Cory Alvarez, a 26-year-old from Haiti, accused of raping a young girl after being released into the United States through a now-defunct parole pipeline.
Alvarez was arrested in March and indicted for aggravated rape of a child under 16 in Rockland, Massachusetts. Despite the serious charges, he was released on $500 bail in June after the Plymouth County Superior Court rejected prosecutors’ request for a $25,000 bail.
This week, ICE agents took Alvarez into federal custody. Authorities report that Alvarez, residing in a taxpayer-funded migrant shelter in Massachusetts, invited a 15-year-old girl to his room under the guise of helping her with her tablet. Instead, he allegedly raped her.
Alvarez was among the half a million migrants released into the U.S. under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s parole pipeline, known as the CHNV program. This program, recently shut down by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) due to widespread fraud, has raised concerns among lawmakers. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and immigration subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) have requested DHS to explain how Alvarez was allowed entry into the U.S. under this program, though it remains unclear if DHS has responded.