The Trump administration last week revoked the legal status for more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, ending the program known as humanitarian parole. Now, South Florida lawmakers are sounding the alarms for what they describe could be devastating effects for their communities.
The Department of Homeland Security announced on Friday that it will shut down the Biden-era humanitarian parole program known as CHNV— an acronym for the four countries enrolled— in late April. More than 531,000 people had been approved to enter the U.S. and stay for up to two years under the program, with Florida receiving 80% of the arriving migrants, according to the current administration.
