People in this program would be at risk of being “placed in deportation proceedings” / Photo: The New York Times
The United States Government will not allow people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela, who arrived in the country with a program known as “humanitarian parole,” to extend the immigration benefit for more than two years, a spokesperson for the Department informed EFE. of Homeland Security (DHS).
More than half a million people of these four nationalities have entered the country under the program, which began in October 2022 for Venezuelans and was extended to the other three nationalities in February 2023.
The decision, announced less than a month before the November 5 elections, comes amid a barrage of criticism of the program from Republicans and their presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who also assured that, being elected, would end the benefit.
Parole, which requires having a sponsor in the US, grants beneficiaries permission to enter and work legally in the country for a period of two years.
At the end of this period, people in this program who have not applied for another immigration benefit “must leave the United States (…) or will be placed in deportation proceedings,” explained DHS spokesperson Naree Ketudat.
The Government of Joe Bien launched this program as part of its strategy to stop migration to the US, at the same time that it began to impose restrictions on asylum on the border with Mexico.
Some 110,000 Cubans, 210,000 Haitians, 93,000 Nicaraguans and 117,000 Venezuelans have entered the United States under this program, according to the latest data provided by DHS.
People from Venezuela and Haiti who have arrived in the country on parole before July 2023 and June 2024, respectively, have the possibility of applying for a benefit called Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Washington / EFE
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2024-10-06 01:58:11
