South Florida congressional reps react to Trump ending humanitarian parole program
Source: Miami Herald
South Florida congressional reps react to Trump ending humanitarian parole program
Ana Ceballos
Sat, March 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM EDT 5 min read
South Florida congressional members say they are concerned for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans suddenly under threat of deportation now that the Trump administration is ending a program that gave more than 500,000 immigrants a temporary legal pathway into the United States.
“Let’s give them the opportunity to apply for the protections they were promised,” Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar said in a statement Saturday afternoon.
The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced that it will shut down the Biden-era humanitarian parole program known as CHNV – an acronym for the four countries enrolled – in late April. More than 531,000 people had been approved to enter the United States and stay for up to two years under the program, with Florida receiving 80% of the arriving migrants, according to the current administration.
The move will give people who do not have some other form of legal immigration protection, such as a pending asylum application, 30 days to leave the United States. After that, people who came to the United States through the parole program will be prioritized for deportation, and will no longer be able to legally work in the country.
-snip-
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-florida-congressional-reps-react-211036111.html