Posted on 03/23/25
| News Source: CNN
The Trump administration will end legal status for more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela in the United States under some Biden-era parole programs, according to a notice posted by the federal government.
Migrants in the programs have been told to depart the country by April 24, 30 days after the notice was published in the federal register.
In January, the Department of Homeland Security teased the phase-out of parole programs which have allowed certain migrants to temporarily live and work in the US.
The DHS claimed in a release that the Biden administration abused humanitarian parole by extending it to multiple nationalities.
“The Biden-Harris Administration abused the humanitarian parole program to indiscriminately allow 1.5 million migrants to enter our country. This was all stopped on day one of the Trump Administration. This action will return the humanitarian parole program to its original purpose of looking at migrants on a case-by-case basis,” the statement said.