more than this 500,000 migrants US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Friday that Cubans, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) will not be allowed to extend their temporary legal status granted by the Harris-Biden administration.
Below Controversial mass parole programImmigrants from those four countries who meet certain criteria are allowed to fly into US ports of entry, where they receive work permits and authorization to remain in the country for up to two years.
Change Immigrants nearing the end of their parole period from the CHNV will be forced to self-deport or enroll in another federal program offering legal status.
“As initially stated in the Federal Register notice, the grant of parole under these procedures was for a temporary period of up to two years,” a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson said in a statement.
The statement further said, “The purpose of this two-year period is to enable individuals to receive humanitarian relief or other immigration benefits for which they may be eligible, and to be able to work and contribute to the United States Can.” “Individuals who do not have pending immigration benefits or who have not been granted immigration benefits during their two-year parole period will be required to leave the United States before the expiration of their authorized parole period or they will be placed in removal proceedings May go. The parole period is ending.”
CHNV Parole Program, which has been Plagued by massive fraudWill continue to accept new applications for temporary legal status.
The program was halted for about a month earlier this year when an internal review found that thousands of sponsors for immigrants were listing fake Social Security numbers or phone numbers and the same physical addresses for thousands of parole applications. Were using.
The USCIS review found, “Approximately 100 addresses were listed on more than 19,000 forms,” and “multiple applications were submitted by the same IP address.”
The House Homeland Security Committee expressed skepticism Friday that the Harris-Biden administration will actually take any significant steps to remove CHNV immigrants who remain in the country after parole expires.
“They will likely apply for asylum, Temporary Protected Status, or, given ICE’s low enforcement rates under this administration, they will not be a priority for removal,” the committee posted on Twitter. The detainee docket has doubled in size since the Trump administration.
The House panel noted that according to the latest Homeland Department documents provided to the committee, about 1.6 million immigrants were waiting for clearance to fly to the US through the parole program as of October 2023.
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