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 appearing DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman to proceed “protecting” Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans who don’t have legal data 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 ensure that all Cubans paroled in under the CHNV program eligible for or with pending applications for the Cuban Adjustment Act are protected from deportation until their cases are fully resolved,” Salazar wrote in a Friday letter to Huffman.
“Additionally, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians who arrived under the CHNV program, have no criminal record, and have applied for asylum through the proper legal channels, should also be protected until their cases are fully 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 inner DHS memo that was obtained by The New York Occasions.
“Although President Biden originally created this new program on dubious legal grounds and brought individuals here without a plan for their future, they were still enrolled under programs offered to them,” Salazar wrote. “Therefore, I believe they should have the ability to see their applications out to rectify their legal status.”
Salazar, a daughter of Cuban exiles, represents Florida’s twenty seventh Congressional District which is house to numerous 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 knowledge.
On Monday, the day he took workplace, Trump revoked the humanitarian parole program, which benefited nationals from all 4 international locations.
The president has stated on the marketing campaign path that one in all his priorities can be cracking down on unlawful immigration and deporting a lot of unlawful immigrants. Thus far, ICE has reported making 593 arrests, in line with a Friday replace.
The Hill has reached out to DHS for touch upon the letter.
