The U.S. government is terminating the legal status of thousands of immigrants, causing them to leave the country for weeks.
The order affects about 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who came to the United States under a plan launched in 2022 by Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden in October 2022 and expanded in January of the following year.
They will lose legal protection 30 days after the Department of Homeland Security order was issued in the federal communiqué, which was scheduled to take place on Tuesday.
The order said that means immigrants sponsored by the program “must leave the U.S. by April 24” and they can stay in the country unless they have obtained another immigration status.
Westly.us is an organization that supports people seeking asylum in the United States, urging those affected by the advice of immigration lawyers “immediately”.
Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans plan to announce in January 2023 that it will allow access to the U.S. from four countries with a grim human rights record for two years, with a maximum of 30,000 immigrants per month.
Biden touted the plan as a “safe and humane” way to relieve the pressure on the crowded U.S.-Mexico border.
But the Department of Homeland Security stressed Friday that the plan is “temporary.”
It said in the order: “Pay is inherently temporary, and parole alone is not the basis for obtaining any immigration status and does not constitute admission to the United States.”
Trump last week invoked rare wartime legislation to drive more than 200 members of the Venezuelan gang to El Salvador, which has been offered at a discount to imprisoned immigrants and even U.S. citizens.
President Donald Trump has pledged to launch the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history, mainly from Latin American countries.
