The Trump administration moved to end a program for migrants from 4 Caribbean and Latin American nations.
The Trump administration said on Friday that ending a program during the Biden era allows hundreds of thousands of four troubled countries to enter the United States legally and work for up to two years.
The program provided applicants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, the opportunity to travel to the United States and secure the work license quickly, provided that they are passed by security checks and have a financial sponsor. They were allowed to stay for up to two years, which can be renewed.
The “Legal Paths” bill by the Biden Administration, The program was presented for the first time for Venezuelan in 2022And it was expanded to the citizens of the other three countries the following year.
By the end of 2024, more than 500,000 immigrants entered the United States through this initiative, known as the Chnv program, an abbreviation of the countries that cover it.
The permits of work and protection from deportation will end under the authority’s authority, called the conditional release, on April 24.
Ending the program Expected. On President Trump The first day Back to the office, commander The Ministry of Internal Security to take steps to end it.
But the official notice on Friday announces that he dominated him in the ability to stay in the United States for hundreds of thousands of people who may face a great danger or economic coercion if they are forced to return to their countries of origin.
“It takes livelihoods away from thousands and thousands of people here legally, making them not documented and endanger their lives,” said Guerline Jozef, Executive Director of the Haiti Bridge Alliance, an invitation organization.
“Ending the conditional release programs for ChNV, ending the conditional release of those who used it, is a return to proper recharge policies, a return to public safety, and a return to America first,” Tricia McLeulin, a spokeswoman for the Internal Security, said in a statement.
Employers, such as Amazon and Honda, who struggled with a lack of workers, set many beneficiaries of the program since its inception.
“These people came here legally, and they were contributing to the economy,” said Ms. Joseph.
A Notice From internal security, it is scheduled to be It was published in the federal registry On Tuesday, he said the program is valid after 30 days.
The notification said: “These programs do not serve a great general benefit, and it is not necessary to reduce the levels of illegal immigration, and have not adequately reduced the local effects of illegal immigration, and do not serve their intended purposes, and do not contradict the goals of the foreign policy of the administration.”
The notification said that the immigrants without another legal basis to stay in the United States will be asked to leave the country before the end of the conditional release. If they do not leave, they may be targeted for deportation by the immigration authorities.
The administration of President Joseph R. Biden Junior, the program, which survived Legal challengesAs a means to bring the regime to the southern border by establishing an alternative that allowed people from the four countries to enter the country legally, if they meet certain conditions.
Under pressure on the issue of immigration in the election year, The Biden Administration said last fall It was allowed for the program by a difference.
A separate conditional release program allowed it similar to the Biden administration about 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the war with Russia to enter legally and remain temporarily in the United States. Mr. Trump said early this month that he would soon decide to end this program.
The end of Chnv comes as the Trump administration was Campaign expanded On immigrants.
“Development is in line with the Trump administration’s multi -side strategy of enhancing ruin on migrant societies and expanding the deportation and detention system.”
Zolan Kanno-Yungs The reports contributed.
