Deportation crisis ahead? Trump’s latest move targets immigrants with 30 days to go

The Department of Homeland Security under Donald Trump declared on Friday that it would take away protective status from more than five hundred thousand immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela thus creating conditions for possible deportation during the next month.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

The DHS Secretary Kristi Noem described April 24 as the date when non-citizens would lose their legal residence. By April 24 the affected individuals will lose their legal status according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Approximately 5,32,000 individuals in those four nations Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are directly affected by this move when they entered the US through the Biden administration's parole programme with financial sponsors.The immigration policy shifts in the United States brought forth this decision that mirrors an approach implemented under former President Donald Trump to reduce his interpretation of the humanitarian parole program misuse. This legal instrument enabled people fleeing countries involved in warfare or experiencing political turmoil to stay briefly within US borders

Legal challenges

At first this Biden administration permitted each month up to 30,000 residents of these four countries to enter legally for a two-year period while enabling employment possibilities. According to DHS current policies all non-legal residents must leave the US prior to their parole duration ending.The current administration suspended immigration benefit applications for asylum seekers as well as other forms of immigration assistance but beneficiaries were authorized to remain during the parole period. Multiple legal oppositions have been filed against this policy since its inception. American citizens together with immigrants who reside there filed a lawsuit to recover the program because they believed the shutdown was wrong for families and communities.

Deportation flights from the United States

According to Karen Tumlin who leads Justice Action Center which participates in the lawsuit the policy represents “reckless cruelty and counterproductivity.” The new policy creates substantial effects on nations such as Cuba and Nicaragua and Venezuela since these countries strongly oppose accepting US deportation flights. The situation in Haiti remains unstable which makes deportation efforts difficult even though they usually accept deportation flights from the United States.Under this immigration scheme approximately 500,000 migrants entered the US within the last few months of 2022 through its combined legal entry and border enforcement system. Reporting by Press indicates that this modification affects foreigners who entered the US through the humanitarian parole programme beginning in October 2022 because they obtained permission to live and work in the nation for two years.