Trump officials make plans to revoke legal status of migrants welcomed under Biden

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The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the legal status of many of the migrants who were allowed to come to the U.S. legally from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela under former President Joe Biden, according to internal government documents reviewed by CBS News. The proposal by the Department of Homeland Security, spelled out in an unpublished notice, would fully terminate a Biden administration program that allowed more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to fly to the U.S. if American sponsors agreed to help them financially.

The Biden administration argued the policy, known as CHNV, discouraged illegal immigration by people from these four Latin American countries by offering them legal means to come to the U.S., but President Trump froze the initiative hours after being inaugurated. Trump officials have specifically argued the program was a misuse of immigration parole, the legal authority which the Biden administration used to admit those under the sponsorship initiative, and to allow them to apply for work permits.

Under the new move, the Trump administration would revoke the parole status of those allowed into the U.S. under the CHNV policy and place them in deportation proceedings if they have failed to apply for, or obtain, another immigration benefit, like asylum, a green card, or Temporary Protected Status, the internal proposal shows. It's unclear how many of the over half-million people allowed into the U.S. under this initiative have applied for other immigration programs. When the Trump administration's plan will be finalized also remains unclear.

Those whose parole classification is revoked, and who lack another immigration status, would become ineligible to work in the U.S. lawfully. They would also receive notices to appear in immigration court, the first step in the deportation process, according to the internal documents. Earlier this month, the Trump administration empowered federal immigration agents, including those with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to seek the deportation — including in an expedited fashion in some cases — of those permitted to enter the U.S. under various Biden administration policies, including the CHNV program.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-officials-make-plans-to-revoke-legal-status-of-migrants-welcomed-under-biden/

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1. They were only allowed to stay for a max of 2 years under the existing program

For some that means their time had already expired.

In the last two years, nearly 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have arrived in the United States to live and work here legally. They have come under a program known as “CHNV,” named for the nationalities of its beneficiaries. The CHNV program allows people in the United States to petition to sponsor potential beneficiaries; if approved, they are paroled into the country for a period of two years, and allowed to apply for work permits after they arrive.

Since the program was created for Venezuela in fall 2022 (and expanded to the other three countries in January 2023), however, the future of the program – and by extension the people who have benefited from it – has been unclear.

This month, however, the Biden administration clarified: people who are in the U.S. under CHNV will not be able to use the program to stay in the U.S. for more than two years. When the two-year parole grants start expiring – as they have for the first Venezuelan beneficiaries – the government will not grant new ones.

This doesn’t mean the U.S. is kicking everyone out. Most of the people who are here under CHNV are eligible to apply for other forms of legal protection. The people most affected by the Biden administration’s decision are Nicaraguans, who are not categorically eligible for another legal status – and who may start having to decide, in January of next year, whether to leave the U.S. or remain as unauthorized immigrants.

https://immigrationimpact.com/2024/10/16/chnv-parole-wont-last-options-to-stay-in-the-us/