The Trump administration is removing protected status and canceling work visas for more than half a million ‘migrants’ who arrived to the U.S. via the Biden regime’s “Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans,” also known as the CHNV parole program.
Under the scheme, which was initially made available to Venezuelan nationals in late 2022 and then opened to citizens of Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua in January of 2023, some 532,000 inadmissible aliens flew to U.S. airports in just over two years, until the program was suspended during the first days of the new Trump era.
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced CHNV participants whose temporary parole status has not already expired must leave the country before April 24 or face removal.
“The CHNV program was an abuse of the parole authority,” Matt O’Brien, a former immigration judge and director of investigations at the Immigration Reform Law Institute, told news outlet Border Hawk in a recent interview.
“The government, for humanitarian purposes… can parole people into the country, and that is a legal fiction. Under the law, you are considered to be at the border, not in the United States, but you’re physically in the U.S,” O’Brien explained.
“Congress created ‘Temporary Protected Status,’ and what that essentially does is allows the government to give a temporary protection similar to asylum to people who are fleeing political struggle, civil wars, natural disasters. The problem is that it’s supposed to be temporary, and it’s supposed to end. And it’s also supposed to apply only to people who are in the United States when the event, the disaster, the civil war, whatever, took place.”
DHS confirmed O’Brien’s assertions, stating, “Parole is inherently temporary, and parole alone is not an underlying basis for obtaining any immigration status, nor does it constitute an admission to the United States.”
“Once an alien is paroled into the United States, the parole allows the alien to stay temporarily in the United States for the duration of the parole period unless and until the parole expires or is otherwise terminated.”
The Biden administration was forced to temporarily suspend CHNV in 2024 after an internal audit found the program was rife with fraud and abuse.
Investigators discovered that applicants and sponsors were submitting false identification and personal information, using the same physical and IP addresses for thousands of applications, and even admitting that they planned to support approved foreign nationals via income earned from criminal activity.
Additionally, more than 80,000 applications were approved for citizens of non-CHNV countries.
Border Hawk senior correspondent Wid Lyman contributed to this report.
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