The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the legal status of many of the migrants who were allowed to come to the United States legally from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela under former President Joe Biden, according to internal government documents reviewed By CBS News.
The proposal of the National Security DepartmentDelivered in an unprecedented warning, it would completely end up an Biden administration program that allowed more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to fly to the US.
Biden administration argued politics, known as CHNVdiscouraged illegal immigration by people from these four Latin American countries by offering them legal means to come to the United States, but President Trump froze the hours of initiative After being inaugurated. Trump officials have specifically argued that the program was a misuse of the probation of immigration, the legal authority that the Biden administration used to admit those under the sponsorship initiative and to allow them to request work permits.
According to the new movement, the Trump administration would revoke the status of probation of those allowed in the CHNV policy and would place them in deportation procedures if they have not requested or obtained another immigration benefit, such as asylum, a green card or a green card Temporary protected stateThe internal proposal shows.
It is not clear how many of the more than half a million allowed people in the US. Under this initiative they have requested other immigration programs. When the Trump administration plan will be finished, it also remains without being clear.
Those whose classification of probation is revoked, and who lack another immigration status, would not be eligible to legally work in the United States. They would also receive notices to appear in the Immigration Court, the first step in the deportation process, according to internal documents.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration Empowering federal immigration agentsIncluding those with application of immigration and customs, to seek deportation, even in a manner issued in some cases, of those allowed to enter the US in several Policies of the Biden administration, including the CHNV program.
DHS representatives did not immediately respond to comments requests.