The Trump administration has ended legal status for more than half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Posting notifications Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The DHS said it would withdraw “category parole program for unacceptable aliens” from listed countries and their relatives.
This is the latest move from the administration's crackdown on immigration and retracting Biden-era policies.
“For the past two years, DHS has implemented a program that allows unacceptable aliens and their relatives, citizens or citizens of designated countries, to request permission to travel to the United States to consider parole to the country,” the notice states.
It is said that immigrants in the program must leave the country by April 24th, 30 days after the notification is officially made public on the federal register.
The department teased in January about abolishing a parole program that allows some people to temporarily live and work in the country.
“The Biden-Harris administration has misused the humanitarian parole program and indiscriminately allows 1.5 million migrants to enter our country, all of which was stopped on the first day of the Trump administration,” the department said. statement.
The parole program previously allowed immigrants to remain in the United States for up to two years. People need to apply online, go through background checks and then financially sponsor someone.
