Trump asks half a million people from THESE countries to 'self-deport' immediately amid immigration crackdown

Time of India

17 hours ago

The Trump administration has directed as many as 530,000 immigrants who came to the U.S. legally to 'self-deport'. The crucial move comes as it has revoked protections granted to Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans by a Biden-era program, reports HuffPost.
The Trump administration has stared sending termination notices to more than 500,000 foreign nationals who had received temporary stays to live and work in the United States under a special humanitarian exception. The so-called CHNV program was open to applicants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela from 2023 until it was terminated by President Donald Trump earlier this year.
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Trump asks half a million people to leave US
The Trump administration has put into action a plan to order 500,000 foreign nationals to self-deport from America immediately. Recipients of the notices from the
Department of Homeland Security
are encouraged to 'self-deport immediately.'
Those who will co-operate with the Department of Homeland Security will receive a cash bonus of $1,000 when they return to their home country.
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The Biden administration in 2023 granted the immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela "
humanitarian parole
" into the US under a scheme dubbed the CHNV program. It aimed to protect people from extreme living conditions in those four countries
Now, the Trump administration has sent them notices via email, informing that their temporary permission to remain in the US under the CHNV parole program has been rescinded. Migrants who have not secured another lawful immigration status are now being told they must leave the country right away.
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According to Department of Homeland Security, of November last year, 531,670 people had been granted permission to stay in the U.S under the program. The DHS began sending documents out on Thursday, two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled the administration could force those in the CHNV program to leave the country. A legal challenge against Trump's dismantling of Biden-era parole programs is still ongoing.
"Starting in 2022, the Biden administration released over 500,000 poorly vetted aliens into the U.S. under the CHNV parole program. President Trump canceled this program, and the Supreme Court upheld this cancellation on May 30, 2025. DHS is now notifying parole recipients if they have not obtained lawful status to remain in the U.S., they must leave immediately," the agency said in a press release.
A month ago, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to revoke the protected status of nearly 350,000 more immigrants, all from Venezuela, who were allowed to remain in the U.S. under the Temporary Status Program.
However, even as the Department of Homeland Security issued notices to foreign nationals on Thursday, Trump expressed concern over how his administration's tough immigration enforcement was negatively impacting the farming, hotel, and leisure industries — sectors that often rely on undocumented labor.
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'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.
'In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs,' Trump wrote.
'This is no good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA,' he wrote. 'Changes are coming!'
Speaking to reporters later, Trump reiterated his belief that farmers were being harmed by his administration's deportation regime.
'Farmers are being hurt badly ... They have very good workers, they've worked for them for 20 years, they're not citizens but they've turned out to be great,' Trump said.
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'We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back,' he said, an apparent reference to the deportation of undocumented agricultural workers that his administration has pursued.
'You go into a farm and you look and people ... they've been there for 20, 25, years, and they've worked great and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else,' Trump continued. 'And then you're supposed to throw them out.'
'So we're, we're going to have an order on that, pretty soon, I think. We can't do that to our farmers and leisure too, hotels,' the president said.