NEW YORK. The United States announced on Friday that it would end the legal status of millions of immigrants. US President Donald Trump pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history and to control immigrants mainly from Latin American countries.
The order, which will take effect until January next year, will affect about 532,000 citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who came to the United States under a plan launched by Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden in October 2022.
They will lose their legal protections 30 days after the US Department of State’s order is published in the Federal Register. This means that immigrants sponsored by the program must “leave the United States” by April 24 unless they obtain another immigration status that allows them to remain in the country, the order said.
Welcome.US, a nonprofit organization that supports those seeking asylum in the United States, urged those affected by the move to “immediately” seek the advice of an immigration attorney.
The Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) program, announced in January 2023, allowed 30,000 immigrants per month from these four countries with serious human rights records to enter the United States for two years. .
Biden described the plan as a “safe and humane” way to ease pressure on the crowded US-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that the plan was ‘temporary’.
“Parole is inherently temporary, and parole alone is not an inherent basis for obtaining any immigration status, nor is it admission to the United States,” the order said.
The order will affect most of the 5 million immigrants who entered the US under the CHNV scheme, according to California immigration lawyer Nicolette Glazer.
“Only 75,000 asylum applications were legally filed for this, so the vast majority of CHNV parolees will find themselves eligible for status, work permits, and removal,” she posted on X. .
Trump last week invoked rare wartime legislation to extradite more than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador.
More than 7 million Venezuelans have fled their country over the past decade as the oil-rich country’s economy has collapsed under Washington’s leader, Nicolas Maduro.RSS
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