The United States announced on Friday that it would end the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, giving them until April 24 to leave the country.
This decision affects approximately 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaragues and Venezuelans who entered a program launched by President Joe Biden in October 2022 and developed in January 2023.
Immigrants will lose their legal protection 30 days after the Ministry of Internal Security has published the order in the Federal Register, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Persons affected must leave the United States unless it gets another immigration status.
Welcome.us, an organization supporting refugees, urged individuals to immediately consult an immigration lawyer.
The program, designed to grant up to 30,000 migrants per month of these four nations, was intended for a temporary, “safe and human” alternative to the American border of Mexico City.
However, the Ministry of Internal Security stressed that the program was not a way for permanent immigration.
This decision comes as President Donald Trump promised to carry out the largest expulsion campaign in the history of the United States, focusing on the limitation of immigration, in particular from Latin America.
