The U.S. government, under President Donald Trump, has announced that it will cancel the temporary legal status of 530,000 immigrants. This includes people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, according to an official notice. Trump administration revokes legal migrant status for 500,000 people.
This decision is part of Trump’s stricter immigration policies. The policy will take effect on April 24 and end a special two-year permit called “parole.”. Former President Joe Biden introduced this permit. Allowing these immigrants to enter the U.S. by air if they had sponsors in the country.
A group of American citizens and immigrants has sued the Trump administration for ending the humanitarian parole program. Furthermore, they want to reinstate the program for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Former President Joe Biden started the parole program for Venezuelans in 2022. Later expanded it in 2023 to include Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans. Therefore this administration introduced this program to manage the high number of undocumented immigrants from these countries. Furthermore relations between the U.S. and these four nations have been tense politically and diplomatically.
The new legal programs were introduced while President Biden was also working to reduce illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border.
In an official notice to be published on Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Moreover They that ending their parole status will make it easier to deport them quickly through a process called “expedited removal.”
Trump, who strongly opposes immigration, quickly increased enforcement after becoming president. Moreover he focused on deporting a record number of people living in the U.S. without legal documents.
Trump Crackdown: 530,000 Immigrants Stripped of Legal Status
He argued that the parole programs, started by former President Biden, went beyond federal law. On January 20, he signed an order to end these programs.
The Trump administration’s decision to take away legal status from 530,000 immigrants could put many at risk of deportation if they stay in the U.S. Furthermore, it is not clear how many of these immigrants have found another way to stay legally.
The Trump administration’s decision to take away legal status from 530,000 immigrants could put many at risk of deportation if they stay in the U.S. Therefore it is not clear how many of these immigrants have found another way to stay legally.
Trump’s Policy Shift Ends Legal Status for Over Half a Million Immigrants
In an official notice to be published on Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Furthermore they said that ending their parole status will make it easier to deport them quickly through a process called “expedited removal.”
Karen Tumlin, director of the immigrant rights group Justice Action Center, said the Trump administration is breaking a promise made to hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their sponsors in the U.S.
She said that suddenly taking away the legal status of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole recipients will cause unnecessary confusion and heartbreak for families and communities across the country. She shared this statement with the AFP news agency.
Nicolette Glazer, an immigration lawyer in California, said the new order will impact most of the 530,000 immigrants who came to the U.S. under the CHNV program. She warned on X that the situation will cause extreme chaos.
On March 6, Trump said he would soon decide whether to take away parole status from about 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. during the war with Russia.
A policy from Trump’s previous term, put in place in January, allows fast-track deportation (expedited removal) for certain immigrants who have been in the U.S. for two years or less.
Meanwhile, Venezuela has agreed to restart flights to bring immigrants back from the United States, the Venezuelan government said in a statement on Saturday.
“Migration is not a crime, and we will not stop until everyone who wants to return is back home. We will also work to rescue our people held in El Salvador,” the statement said.
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