The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it will revoke protections for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month.
The order applies to immigrants who arrived in the U.S. since October 2022 under a Biden-era sponsorship process that allowed migrants to enter with a legal “parole” for two years.
The Trump administration said the program was part of a broad abuse of humanitarian parole plagued by fraud and abuse. An internal review found that thousands of sponsors were listing fake social security numbers and using the same physical address for thousands of parole applications.
DHS is urging migrants to use the newly repurposed CBP Home smartphone app to register for self-deportation or face arrest and deportation in the next 30 days.