The federal government is trying to revoke protections for 530,000 migrants, who would have to leave the country by April 24. Immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela were brought into the U.S. under a Biden-era sponsorship process called CHNV.

The program was created to provide a legal pathway to asylum-seekers who would otherwise be stuck in overcrowded shelters and barred from working for at least six months after an asylum case was opened. CHNV granted a two year parole status to migrants, which required them to have a U.S.-based sponsor who would take financial responsibility for settling them and helping them secure a work permit if authorized. Employers experiencing labor shortages welcomed the program, and it seemed to be successful, as run-ins by CHNV migrants with Border Patrol have been reduced since the program was introduced in January 2023.

The Justice Action Center in California is preparing to challenge the move in court. The organization’s founder, Karen Tumlin, said in an interview with the BBC that this decision hurts both immigrants and their American sponsors, “who did everything right that the U.S. Government asked of them.” She added, “To say ‘oh, we’re so sorry, even if you had 18 months left on your grant of permission to be here we’re going to pull the rug out from under you in the next 30 days,’ it’s really quite surprising.”

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)