Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging President Trump’s Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) to spare some migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean from being deported underneath the brand new administration’s immigration tips.
The South Florida Congresswoman requested the performing DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman to proceed “defending” Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans who do not need legal information and have been permitted to enter and work within the U.S. underneath former President Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program.
“I strongly urge you to make sure that all Cubans paroled in underneath the CHNV program eligible for or with pending purposes for the Cuban Adjustment Act are protected against deportation till their circumstances are totally resolved,” Salazar wrote in a Friday letter to Huffman.
“Moreover, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians who arrived underneath the CHNV program, haven’t any legal file, and have utilized for asylum by the right authorized channels, must also be protected till their circumstances are totally resolved,” she added.
The present administration is offering Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers with extra latitude to expel migrants who got here to the U.S. both by way of asylum utilizing the CBP One or the parole program instated by Biden for these fleeing violence in Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua, in line with an inside DHS memo that was obtained by The New York Occasions.
“Though President Biden initially created this new program on doubtful authorized grounds and introduced people right here and not using a plan for his or her future, they have been nonetheless enrolled underneath packages supplied to them,” Salazar wrote. “Due to this fact, I imagine they need to have the power to see their purposes out to rectify their authorized standing.”
Salazar, a daughter of Cuban exiles, represents Florida’s twenty seventh Congressional District which is dwelling to quite a lot of Venezuelans and Cubans.
The CHNV program (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela) was introduced in January 2023, permitting those that got here in to remain legally for as much as two years. Round 532,000 Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and Cubans got parole by the top of December 2024, in line with U.S. Customs and Border Safety data.
On Monday, the day he took workplace, Trump revoked the humanitarian parole program, which benefited nationals from all 4 international locations.
The president has mentioned on the marketing campaign path that considered one of his priorities can be cracking down on unlawful immigration and deporting a lot of unlawful immigrants. Up to now, ICE has reported making 593 arrests, in line with a Friday update.
The Hill has reached out to DHS for touch upon the letter.
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