Trump administration moves to end temporary status for 530,000 Cubans, Venezuelans and others
Washington – The Trump administration is moving to the end Temporary legal status For more than 530,000 people who arrived in the United States from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela through the Biden era Conditional conditional release programsAccording to a federal registry The published document Friday.
Conditional release programs will end on April 24, 30 days after the document is expected to be officially published in the federal registry on Tuesday. The document said that people with a conditional release under these programs “should leave the United States before the end of the conditional release.”
This step comes yet President Donald Trump On his first day in the office Manage To “end all the Conditional Conditioner Revolution programs that contradict the policies of the United States,” noting that the conditional release programs specifically to the Cubans, the Haitians, the Nicaragua and the Venezuelan.
The Minister of Internal Security, Christie, wrote in a notice that the end of her ministry for the “direct” relevant release programs “directly” in Trump and “complements and confirms the administration’s axis of an external policy that gives priority to the interests of the United States within safe limits.”
She said in the document: “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 eased 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 Ministry of Internal Security will work to “remove” people who entered the United States under programs and do not leave before completing the conditional release.
The document indicated that “the foreigners who have since obtained a case of legal migration or any other basis allowing them to stay in the United States are not required to leave the United States according to this notice.”
Conditional release programs have been developed before Biden Administration Immigrants were allowed to stay in the United States for up to two years. Immigrants were asked to apply online, and through the back checks and have a financial sponsor. They will also get the work authorization in the United States
The Biden Administration started a Conditional release policy For Venezuelan in 2022, later Expansion The Nicaragua, Haitians and Cuban Initiative. Under the initiative, up to 30,000 qualified people from the four countries combined temporarily enter the United States every month.
When it was reached to comment on the end of the conditional release programs, a senior official in the Ministry of National Security criticized the programs as “catastrophic”.
Using a brief name for the programs, the official said: “End the CHNV programs, the conditional release, and the end of the conditional release of those who used them, is a return to the policies of proper lips, a return to public safety, and a return to America first.”
The former Trump administration faced efforts to reduce conditional release programs. Court challenges. Collective work suit It was presented against the Trump administration last month and urged the court to prevent the end of the programs.
