The Biden-era CHNV parole program will move up to 30,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the United States each month.
More than 530,000 migrants who entered the United States under the former Biden administration’s humanitarian parole program will be revoked their legal status later next month, according to a March 21 Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Noem said DHS will revoke immigrants’ parole status on April 24, or within 30 days of publication of notifications in the federal register. The notification is scheduled to be officially made public on March 25th.
“After this end of CHNV’s parole program, parolees without legal basis who remain in the United States must leave the United States before the end of parole,” she said.
The notice states that “neither urgent humanitarian reasons nor important public interest justifies the ongoing presence of foreigners in the United States” or that “the purpose for which it was approved has been achieved” Noem may terminate parole.
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The program allows up to 30,000 immigrants to the US from four countries each month, provided they meet certain conditions, such as having sponsors providing financial support in the United States.
According to a DHS notification, since 2022, approximately 532,000 migrants have been permitted to enter the country under the CHNV parole program, but it is unknown who still holds valid parole status.
An internal report by the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) revealed sponsors using fake Social Security numbers, social security numbers for deceased persons and false phone numbers.
“The Biden-Harris administration has misused the humanitarian parole program and indiscriminately allows 1.5 million migrants to enter our country,” Huffman said on Jan. 21. “This was all stopped on the first day of the Trump administration.”
Karen Tamlin, founder and director of Justice Action Center (JAC), a nonprofit advocate for immigration rights, has called for the Trump administration’s move to end the CHNV program as “reckless” and “cruel.”
“The Center for Justice and Conduct will continue to support it with beneficiaries and their sponsors in defending humanitarian parole at 11am on Monday in Boston.
