Biden-Program Immigrants at Risk of Deportation

The Department of Homeland Security last week began sending notices to immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua who entered the U.S. through Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program, advising them that they must “self-deport.” The notification revokes their parole status and their work permits.

The parole program allowed nationals from those four countries to enter the U.S. for a period of two years. Trump attempted to revoke their legal status in April, but Federal Judge Indira Talwani stopped him.

However, a May 30 Supreme Court decision gave Trump the green light to end the program.

In a dissenting opinion, Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor argued that the decision “undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”

More than 110,000 Cubans entered the U.S. through the parole program. If they have not changed their legal status, they are now at risk of deportation.

A separate Trump decision has also revoked the legal status of nearly a million people who entered the U.S. through the CBP One online app, including thousands of Cubans.