More than a million migrants who were allowed to enter the United States during the Biden administration may have their temporary stays revoked and be rapidly deported, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement document that became public Friday.
President Trump has ended programs that brought nearly a million and a half people from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua. The legal status of these immigrants, who often fled violence and war, is now in jeopardy. We get the latest from NPR's Sergio Martínez-Beltrán.
A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target programs that let in more than a million people.
Under the Biden administration, migrants from embattled countries could apply for entry for humanitarian reasons, without having to attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally.
Migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti who came under a temporary humanitarian parole process under the Biden administration could lose their temporary stays and be deported. State of play: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were directed last week to expedite the deportation of people who failed to apply for asylum within the one-year deadline.
Many of the migrants under threat spent months waiting in Mexico, at migrant shelters or in rented rooms, in cities that are rife with cartel violence and kidnappings, in order to enter the US with permission.
The Trump administration has given immigration authorities permission to revoke the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants the Biden administration has allowed to enter the United States and seek their
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spare some migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean from being deported under the new administration’s immigration guidelines.
For weeks, lawyers and advocates, worried about President Donald Trump’s promised immigration crackdown, have been telling asylum seekers and migrants temporarily paroled into the United States to keep their documents with them at all times in case they are stopped by overzealous cops or immigration agents.
President Donald Trump repealed a Biden administration program to temporarily allow in more than half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The legal paths to enter the United States are closed to them,
The president sought to end a program that allowed migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to fly into the United States and remain in the country for up to two years.
A Nicaraguan woman staying legally in the United States has chosen to leave because of concern over President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign for mass deportations