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April 4, 2025

What Will the End of Humanitarian Parole Entail?

The U.S. government announced last month that it will end a program that granted temporary legal status for more than 500,000 people who came to the United States from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. // File Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

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  • The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced March 21 that it will end legal status for 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who entered the United States U.S. legally under a humanitarian parole program, giving them until April 24 to “self-deport.” The program, known as CHNV, was implemented in 2023; in order to be considered, migrants needed to secure a sponsor, pass a background check and could not have illegally crossed an international border. How will the end of CHNV work in practice? To what extent do Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela have the capacity to accept hundreds of thousands of deported people? How will the decision affect U.S. foreign policy in Latin America?

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Nayla Rush, senior researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies: “The Trump administration terminated the CHNV program, which was designed by the Biden-Harris administration to allow inadmissible nationals from these countries to live and work in the United States by granting them parole. A major issue with this program, aside from its questionable legality, is that the program allows parolees who are already in the United States to sponsor who gets picked to receive parole under CHNV. Most of these parolees also lack lawful immigration status in the United States. Parole is not a visa or immigration status; it is a mere permission to enter and remain temporarily in the United States. The termination of CHNV means that beneficiaries of this program will need to depart the United States. DHS intends to prioritize for removal those who have not applied for an adjustment of…”

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