The government of US President Donald Trump will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguns and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a federal notice from Friday (21). This is the latest expansion of repression of immigration.
The measure, which comes into force on April 24, interrupts a two-year “parole” granted to migrants by former President Joe Biden. This program allowed them to enter the country by air if they had US sponsors.
After taking office, including an effort to deport record migrant figures in the US illegally. He argued that the entry -off freedom programs exceeded the limits of federal law and requested its termination in an executive order of 20 January.
Trump said on March 6 that he would decide “very soon” would withdraw the conditional freedom status of about 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the US during the. Trump’s comments came in response to a Reuters report that said his government planned to revoke the status to Ukrainians in April.
For Venezuelans in 2022 and expanded it to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaragunses in 2023, while their administration fought with high levels of illegal immigration of these nationalities. Diplomatic and political relations between the four countries and the United States have been tense.
The new legal paths came when Biden tried to repress the.
The Trump government’s decision to remove the legal status of half a million migrants can leave many vulnerable to deportation if they decide to stay in the US. It is still unclear how many that have entered the US on parole now have another form of protection or legal status.
In a warning that will be formally published at Federal Register on Monday (24), the US internal security department said that revoking the conditional freedom status would make migrants easier in a quick deportation process known as “accelerated removal.”
According to a Trump era policy implemented in January, accelerated removal can be applied to certain US migrants for two years or less.
