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Haitian Migrant Charged With Rape of Disabled Teen in Massachusetts

The suspect, a 26-year-old Haitian national, entered the U.S. under the CHNV parole program and is now facing charges for the alleged assault in a hotel housing migrants.

  • Cory Alvarez, 26, is accused of raping a disabled 15-year-old girl at a Massachusetts hotel that accommodates migrant families.
  • Alvarez entered the United States last summer through the CHNV parole program, which allows individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela humanitarian parole.
  • The CHNV program, criticized by some, was designed to grant up to 30,000 people each month from these countries two years of humanitarian parole to work in the U.S.
  • Alvarez pleaded not guilty to a single count of aggravated rape of a child and is being held without bail.
  • The incident has sparked discussions on the effectiveness and safety of housing migrants in hotels and shelters, amid broader debates over U.S. immigration policies.
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