A Haitian migrant who came to the US through President Biden’s controversial parole program has been charged with raping a 15-year-old disabled girl.
Cory Alvarez, 26, was charged Thursday in Rockland, Massachusetts, after allegedly attacking the girl the night before at a hotel-turned-migrant center.
Rockland police took the Haitian migrant into custody at the hotel, where Alvarez had been living, and the 15-year-old was transported to an area hospital.
The suspected child molester arrived in the US last June through the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole program, according to Fox news.
The program has been criticized for allowing up to 30,000 migrants to cross the border each month, with Alvarez believed to have flown directly from Haiti to New York City on two years’ parole.
Cory Alvarez, 26, allegedly raped a 15-year-old disabled girl at a migrant hotel in Massachusetts on Wednesday evening
Police were called to the Comfort Inn in Rockland, Massachusetts and arrested Alvarez at the scene. The hotel had been converted into a migrant center
Immigration officials have since filed an arrest warrant for the 26-year-old with local authorities.
Fox News reporter Bill Melugin added that the Haitian has a sponsor listed in New Jersey as part of his parole.
At his arraignment Thursday in Hingham District Court, Alvarez pleaded not guilty to the charge of aggravated rape of a child.
The CHNV program that brought him to the US has been under fire since it was first opened to Venezuelans in October 2022, before being opened to other countries in subsequent months.
When it was announced, the program allowed a limited number of Venezuelans to get flights to the US, as long as they had not previously entered illegally, passed certain checks and had a sponsor in the US.
The program was then opened to Haitians, Nicaraguans and Cubans in January 2023, when the number of migrants admitted was expanded to 30,000 per month.
Since its expansion early last year, the program has brought more than 138,000 Haitians to the U.S.
Since President Biden expanded the CHNV program in January 2023, he has brought more than 138,000 Haitian migrants to the U.S.
Alvarez’s arrest comes at a time of heightened concern about Haitian migrants streaming into the U.S. as they escape the gang-led violence sweeping the country. The leader of the gang violence, former police officer Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier, was spotted in Port-au-Prince on Monday
Those entering the country are also allowed to obtain work permits and are given a two-year permission to remain in the US.
It has come under scrutiny from Republicans, with 20 Republican states recently filing a lawsuit against the Biden administration, accusing it of abusing the parole process.
The lawsuit was dismissed in court.
However, the program was defended by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security, which emphasized that the CHNV program is a “safe and orderly way to reach the United States.”
Alvarez’s arrest comes at a time of heightened concern about Haitian migrants streaming into the U.S. as they escape the gang-led violence sweeping the country.
On Monday, Prime Minister Ariel resigned amid threats from cannibal gangs that they would spark a civil war if he did not step aside.
Thousands have fled their homes as a result of the chaos, and locals continue to report the overwhelming stench of the dead.
Meanwhile, politicians across the region are looking for a solution – one that may now be in sight following Henry’s removal.
The US is bracing for an increase in the number of Haitian migrants hoping to flee to a stable country.