On Friday morning, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants appeared in the United States. I use the term “illegal immigrants” because these people are not not documented. They have leaves. They arrived in the planes, months ago, with the permission of the government. They came to the back checks. Then the Supreme Court issued a decision with one paragraph: it will be allowed Donald Trump To end the program that made it possible to be in the country. In a moment, the court turned into up to five hundred and thirty thousand legal immigrants-to use the brutal unrealistic of the government-“foreigners who are deporting”.
These immigrants entered the United States under the CHNV program, a conditional release, a Biden administration initiative to grant people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Conditional for a period of two years, during which they can apply for some forms of long -term legal status, including asylum. They were well assembled, gave their biometric data to the government, but Trump has subjected them to some of his most legitimate attacks. during The second presidential debateWhen he was inaccurately cried about the immigrants “eating dogs”, in Springfield, Ohio, he was largely talking about the halls, who, with legal work permits, helped renew the manufacturing industry in the city.
On Saturday, Robin, a university worker who came to North Carolina from Nicaragua through Chnv with his five -year -old wife and son. He said he was “frustrated” that Trump was targeting immigrants like them. “In practice, what would I like not to look at us with contempt, right?” Robin said. “We have sought the opportunity to come here in the right way.” I am surprised by the phrase “The right path“I often heard this from Trump’s voters, at the Awa hills, on the borders of Texas, and on the Thanksgiving table in my family.
Chnv is not well understood. But the immigrants who arrived through the program did things, unambiguously, so -called “the right path”. For years, Robin and his wife looked into ways to move north. In 2023, in an attempt to suppress the opposition, Daniel OrtegaNicaragua’s dictator, “Sources” of the University of Central America (UCA) in Mandua, Jesuit College, the floors where Robin and his wife worked. The unemployed and under doubt about the opposition because of their relations with UCA, the couple saw a few options. Robin applied to obtain an American visa, but with the absence of American citizens in his family, he knew that waiting might take decades. Friends began to ask if the family should risk illegally crossing, although the journey through Mexico that suffers from the gangs had terrified it, especially with a young child in the clouds. Then an American Jesus Priest told him Robin at the University of California at the University of California about Chnv, and he explained that the only way to start the request is for a person who lives legally in the states to agree to their care; This person had to prove that he could provide financial support. Incredibly, the priest had a friend of a friend in Baltimore who wanted to help. Robin met with the information that the United States government will need to examine the background. Once he and his wife were approved to travel to the United States, they traveled to Fort Lauddier, where customs and border protected them examined security risks, and the agents wiped the ten fingerprints of each of them, including five years old, before they continued in Baltimore. While they were walking, entering, at the airport, the family sponsor ran to salute them. This was the first time they met personally, and on that first night, they slept at her home. “It was a warm welcome, it was amazing – it was like a movie,” Robin said.
With more than eleven million immigrants who are already not documented in the country, why Trump creates a population of about five hundred thousand others Ice For deportation? It comes to timing and fingerprints. Under the new management, Ice The immigrants who were in the country for less than two years put the so -called “expedited removal”. These measures, which, in the past, were intended for people who were arrested after crossing the border, allowing Ice To deport someone quickly, often without giving them an opportunity to see the judge. One of the last Trump’s concerns, along with Rename Mexico Bay and Claim Greenland reaches one million deportations in his first year in office. CHNV cancellation can give a quick boost to its current number. The government already has fingerprints and conditional release addresses ChNV; Ice You can move on it now. (The same logic applies to other forms of collective misinformation, such as canceling student visas: The Trump administration can take credit to remove thousands of university children.)
Karen Tomlin, founder and director of the Justice Center, a lawyer in the Press Call, said a lawyer who represents some of the prosecutors in the case of the Supreme Court in a press invitation. Tomlin confirmed that the legal battle has not yet ended. The Supreme Court canceled a judicial decree of the minimum court prohibiting the end of the program, but it has not issued its own ruling (the case continues in the lower court). Meanwhile, five hundred and thirty thousand drinks of conditional release Chenv can apply for other forms of legal status – in fact, Tomlin estimated that nearly half of them already. But they are still facing deep risks. At one point on the call, tumlin addressed any clients listening. He suffocated. She said to them: “I have done everything the United States asked for you. You deserve much better.”
Guerline Jozef, the co -founder of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, received dozens of terrorist calls from Haiti immigrants in the hours that followed the Supreme Court’s decision (the organization’s hotline received hundreds of others). It is close to two teenagers who came a year before Gonaïoves, a city in West Haiti, in an area where gangs impose control by burning homes. “When they got here, they can finally breathe a sigh of relief. They finally felt safe,” Joseph said. They lived together in New York City and were preparing to go to college in the fall. Then the Supreme Court announced its decision. “Overnight, all of this was taken from them,” she said. “They feel terrorism in a place where they feel safe.” The young woman no longer left their apartment for any reason – it seems that the school and work in the United States have ended for them. Joseph said: “Two of the people who spoke to them are left until their family,” Joseph said.
Andrea Flores, Vice President of Immigration Policy and FWD.US Campaign, a group of policies supporting immigrants, believes that the Democrats made a mistake when they chose not to defend ChNV. tastyFlores said: “When the Biden Administration began to launch the program, in October 2022, Cuba was suffering 2024, CBP announced that since the beginning of the program, the number of immigrants from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba, which she was facing on the border collectively. He decreased eighty -nine percentuntil The comprehensive meetings remained high. I saw the effects directly. In early 2024, when I traveled to migrant shelters in northern Mexico, I was particularly stunned by a few Cubans I met, compared to only one year.
