In a notice posted in the Federal Register, Trump overrides legal status for immigrants and currently safeguard 530,000 people living in the United States has been announced.
They are mostly from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
The enacted policy, and the most significant and recent increase in the former President Trump’s hardline enforcement of immigration policy, takes effect on April 24.
The new policy represents a significant ending of a two-year “parole” program that previously allowed immigrants with American sponsors to come into the country by air, provided they had sponsorship.
Key Aspects of Overriding Legal Status for Immigrants
The humanitarian parole programs established for the mentioned four groups have been suspended indefinitely, and to the suspension, one of the groups composed of American citizens and immigrants sued the Trump administration in an effort to restore and reinstate the life-saving programs.
As a result of the large number of illegal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua, President Biden acted by initiating the parole entry program exclusively for Venezuelans in 2022.
Based on the ongoing plight of citizens from these countries, he later expanded the program by including Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans into the program in 2023.
Political and diplomatic ties among the four nations and the United States have been strained and tense.
The new legal avenues were created as President Biden acted to also prevent the unlawful crossing of the border that has been taking place along the United States-Mexico border.
Trump, whose presidency was founded on a hard and unyielding anti-immigration agenda, did not wait in the White House to increase the enforcement of immigration policy since he was sworn into office.
One of several consequences of this was that it was a concerted attempt to deport more who live in the United States illegally and undocumented than ever before.
He stood up and strongly advocated for his Democratic predecessor’s legal entry parole programs, however, and maintains that they have exceeded federal law limits, creating serious issues.
With that, he exercised his authority and ordered them to be discontinued at once in an executive order signed on January 20.
The latest move by his government to denationalize half a million immigrants of the legal status they have been granted can put a significant number of them at risk, subjecting them to the danger of deportation if they are to remain in America.
It is still not known or established to date how many of the persons who entered the state under the aforementioned provision of parole have already converted to seek some form of alternative protection or legal status.
In an official notice to officially be published next Monday in the Federal Register, the United States Department of Homeland Security published a lengthy explanation that the cancellation of parole status would make it easier and more streamlined to place the immigrants into a faster deportation program called “expedited removal.”
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Karen Tumlin, the executive director of the immigrant rights organization known as the Justice Action Center, had her concern run deep by describing that the Trump administration was actually “breaking a promise the federal government made to the hundreds of thousands” of the immigrants already present and to their sponsors who were sponsoring them.
“Drastically ending the legal status that has been conferred on hundreds of thousands of CHNV humanitarian parole recipients is going to be causing unnecessary disruption, chaos, and deep heartache for families and communities across the nation,” she said in a statement made available to the AFP news agency.
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Nicolette Glazer, an immigration attorney in California, had this to say about the new regime and what the “vast majority” of the half a million immigrants who entered the United States under the CHNV program will now suffer. She continued to elaborate on the situation by adding, “The chaos will be unreal,” to social media site X.
Former President Trump declared on March 6 that he would be making “very soon” a very significant decision on a very significant issue. It involves around 240,000 Ukrainians who had entered the United States as a result of the war with Russia.
He specifically declared that he would be revoking their parole status, under which they are allowed to stay in the United States subject to certain conditions.
Some of the immigrants, namely those who have been in the United States for less than two years, are under the expedited removal process.
It is a process aimed at such individuals and was embraced by President Trump in January. In the meantime, the government of Venezuela made a Saturday announcement in which they declared that they came to an agreement to restart repatriation flights to return the immigrants who had been living in the United States.
“It is not illegal to move around from town to town, and we will not rest until every one of them who are disposed to return home to the nation is at their home where they belong.
And, additionally, we continue advancing in the plan of rescuing our brothers being held captive in El Salvador,” the announcement continued.