More than a million migrants who were allowed to enter the United States during the Biden administration may have their temporary stays revoked and be rapidly deported, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement document that became public Friday.
A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target programs that let in more than a million people.
The president sought to end a program that allowed migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to fly into the United States and remain in the country for up to two years.
Immigrants from certain countries designated for temporary protected status are allowed to live and work in the U.S. for extendible periods of time.
Under the Biden administration, migrants from embattled countries could apply for entry for humanitarian reasons, without having to attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally.
Migrants allowed into the U.S. temporarily under certain Biden administration programs can be quickly expelled, according to a memo sent by the Trump administration's acting secretary of homeland security.
For weeks, lawyers and advocates, worried about President Donald Trump’s promised immigration crackdown, have been telling asylum seekers and migrants temporarily paroled into the United States to keep their documents with them at all times in case they are stopped by overzealous cops or immigration agents.
More than a million migrants who were allowed to enter the United States during the Biden administration can have their temporary stays revoked and be rapidly deported, according to an Immigration ...
Migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti who came under a temporary humanitarian parole process under the Biden administration could lose their temporary stays and be deported. State of play: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were directed last week to expedite the deportation of people who failed to apply for asylum within the one-year deadline.
President Donald Trump is tossing out two Biden-era immigration programs designed to deter illegal border crossings by giving migrants expanded legal pathways to enter the United States.
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spare some migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean from being deported under the new administration’s immigration guidelines.
The Trump administration is giving immigration officers an expanded authority to rapidly deport immigrants, including people the Biden administration temporarily allowed into the country under parole authority,