About 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have received revocation notices from Donald Trump’s administration, which encourages them to “self-deport.”
The CHVN program, which the Biden administration established to permit some foreign nationals to stay and, in some situations, work in the United States, provided coverage for the recipients.
Despite federal court challenges from program beneficiaries, the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump could cancel the program.
On Thursday, June 12, the Trump administration started notifying approximately 500,000 foreign nationals who had been granted temporary stays to reside and work in the United States under a special humanitarian exception that they would be terminated.
Before President Donald Trump ended the CHNV program earlier this year, applicants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela could apply starting in 2023.
The Department of Homeland Security advises those who get the warnings to “self-deport immediately.”
This occurred two weeks after the Supreme Court decided that DHS has the authority to require CHNV members to depart the nation, despite their ongoing legal battle against Trump for canceling the program that was started during the Biden administration.
Immigrants will receive travel assistance and a $1,000 bonus when they return home if they agree to “self-deport” through DHS’s Home Mobile App.
About 350,000 additional immigrants, all from Venezuela, who were permitted to stay in the country under the Temporary Status Program had their protected status revoked by the Trump administration a month ago after the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration permission to do so.
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Immigrants in the CHNV program had been granted temporary, two-year stays after leaving their home countries because of conflicts there, or unsafe living or working conditions.
In a statement on the revocation of the CHNV program, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin accused the Biden administration of having “lied to America.”
As DHS sent out notices to foreign nationals Thursday, Trump himself bemoaned the effect that his own administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement actions were having on the farming, hotel and leisure sectors, which sometimes employ undocumented workers.
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long term workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Thursday morning.
