The Biden administration said it paused a program that admits up to 360,000 people a year from four countries into the United States to work or seek asylum

Republicans have raised concerns about the parole program over a lack of vetting for both applicants, and the people trying to be sponsors. But the internal report only found issues with the sponsors.

Nationals of Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela who have been authorized to come to the United States under a Biden administration humanitarian parole process should not be affected by an ongoing review of the program – unless they had their travel authorizations revoked.

The pause was triggered by a significant number of would-be sponsors applying to sponsor multiple migrants, sources said.

The Biden administration said on Friday it had temporarily put on hold a program that allows citizens of four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds while it reviews vetting and screening processes for sponsor applications.

The Biden administration said Friday that it has paused a humanitarian program so officials can investigate possible fraud in the program known as “parole,’ which admits up to 360,000 people a year from Haiti,

Sponsors for those from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua used addresses, social security numbers and other information multiple times, a report said.

The Biden administration has pumped the brakes on a controversial program that has flown hundreds of thousands of migrants into