The Trump administration is moving to remove the temporary legal status of over 530,000 migrants from Haiti, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela.
According to BBC, over 530,000 migrants brought into the U.S. through a Biden administration sponsorship process known as CHNV were warned to leave the country before their permits and deportation shields expire on April 24.
Former President Biden launched the CHNV program in 2022 in an effort to open legal migration pathways and help curb illegal crossings of the border. Under the program, migrants and their family members were allowed to stay in the U.S. for two years under temporary immigration status if they had American sponsors. Trump suspended CHNV upon taking office.
On Friday (March 21), the Department of Homeland Security said the program had failed to meet its goals.
The Biden administration “granted them [migrants] opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers; forced career civil servants to promote the programs even when fraud was identified; and then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed,” the department said in a statement.
Through CHNV, 213,000 Haitians were reportedly able to enter the U.S. More than 120,700 Venezuelans, 110,900 Cubans, and over 93,000 Nicaraguans were also allowed into the US under the program.
Karen Tumlin, founder of the Justice Action Center in California, said she plans to challenge the Trump administration over the removal of CHNV in court.
Tumlin said the move hurt people “who did everything right that the US Government asked of them.”
“To say ‘oh, we’re so sorry, even if you had 18 months left on your grant of permission to be here we’re going to pull the rug out from under you in the next 30 days,’ it’s really quite surprising.”
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