Trump revokes legal status of 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelans
Ted Hesson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will revoke interim legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, a notice from the Federal Register on Friday, his latest expansion to immigration.
The move, effective April 24, cuts the two-year “parole” of immigrants under former President Joe Biden, who can enter the country through the air if they have our sponsors.
Republican Trump has taken measures to strengthen immigration enforcement after taking office, including pushing for the number of immigrants with a record of illegal deportation. He argued that the legal entry parole program launched under his Democratic predecessor exceeded the boundaries of federal law and called on them to fire in the executive order of January 20.
Trump said on March 6 that he would “quickly” decide whether to deprive about 240,000 Ukrainians of parole status to the United States during the conflict with Russia. Trump’s remarks are in response to a Reuters report that said his administration plans to revoke Ukrainian status in April.
Biden launched a parole program for Venezuelans in 2022 and expanded it to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaragua in 2023 as his government fights high levels of illegal immigration to these nationalities. Diplomatic and political relations between the four countries and the United States are already tense.
The new legal avenue was planned as Biden tried to orchestrate an illegal border crossing point on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Trump administration’s decision to deprive legal status from half a million immigrants, and if they choose to stay in the United States, they may be deported, and it is unclear how many people have entered the United States on parole, and there is now another form of protection or legal status.
In a notice to be officially released in the Federal Register on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said revoking the parole status would make it easier for immigrants to incorporate immigrants into a rapid deportation process known as “accelerating dismissal.”
According to Trump-era policies implemented in January, expedited evacuation measures can be applied to certain immigrants in the United States for two years or less.
(Reports by Ted Hesson and Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editors of Mary Milliken, Matthew Lewis and Shri Navaratnam)
