Trump Administration to Revoke Legal Status for over 530,000 Immigrants

 

Not less than 500,000 migrants who were given humanitarian parole permits to live and work in the U.S. legally will face potential deportation next month, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.

The order applies to about 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who came to the United States since October 2022 as part of the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) program. They arrived with financial sponsors and were given two-year permits to live and work.

“These are the 530,000 illegal immigrants that Joe Biden flew to the United States on the taxpayers [sic] dime." They’re welcome to self-deport using the newly repurposed CBP Home App!” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X, responding to a CBS News report on the notice.

CHNV allowed illegal immigrants to bypass the southern border on their way into the U.S. and receive two-year work permits that Biden allowed to expire in late 2024. An estimated 532,000 aliens entered the U.S. under the program, which was rife with fraud and poor vetting of participants. Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are all ruled by socialist dictators and Haiti is experiencing a long-standing domestic political crisis.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the migrants will lose their legal status on April 24, or 30 days after the publication of the notice in the Federal Register. Parolees without a lawful basis to stay in the U.S. "must depart" before their parole termination date, DHS said.

"Parole is inherently temporary, and parole alone is not an underlying basis for obtaining any immigration status," DHS said.