The De-Documented

[Brenda]

When Ricardo and Yuli crossed the border in October of last year, they had the permission of the United States government. The couple’s petition to apply for asylum was granted following an interview at a Texas border crossing. After handling the required paperwork, the couple moved to Houston and received official work permits. Ricardo — who had run an informal taxi service in Havana — hoped to become a truck driver. In Houston, he acquired his U.S. drivers’ license, a used Honda, and began studying for the commercial trucking license exam. He and Yuli took jobs at a local car wash to make ends meet in the short-term.

In April, the Department of Homeland Security terminated the status of more than 900,000 people who had been vetted at the border for valid asylum claims by DHS personnel. Ricardo and Yuli were among them. Without papers and work permits, they were promptly fired from the car wash. The life they had been planning for over a year was suddenly cast into doubt.

The vast majority of asylum seekers who have lost their legal status are people who navigated the immigration system “the right way,” following the legal pathways created by previous administrations. Ricardo and Yuli entered the country from Mexico using the CBP One app, a phone application created by Customs and Border Protection, which was the only way to seek asylum in the United States between June 2024 and January 2025, when Trump cancelled the program, shutting off the asylum system entirely. The cancellation of the app left tens of thousands of migrants stranded in Mexico.

This is just one example of the administration making attempts to not only revoke lawful status from people who likely obtained it following all of the U.S. governance procedures, but also to prejudice them in unprecedented and discriminatory ways, barring them from applying for or receiving any form of relief for which they very well may be eligible,” said Hannah Flamm, a lawyer with the International Refugee Assistance Project.

This racist fascist Chump cult playing "Government" is going to see a huge progressive backlash because of their fucking outlandish overreach and just plain cruel ass nazi shit.

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