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Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
Trump administration advises 500,000 migrants to self-deport
June 12 (UPI) -- People from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on Thursday began receiving notices of termination of their temporary protected status. They were told to self-deport. The Department of Homeland Security used email to send the TPS termination notices to inform more than 500,000 affected people that the parole and work authorizations granted by the Biden administration have been revoked with immediate effect, CBS News reported. Those who have not obtained other lawful immigration approvals are encouraged to self-deport. The Supreme Court on May 30 upheld the Trump administration's cancellation of the TPS status for the affected people, which the Biden administration first used in 2022. The program granted protected status for those from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela while they awaited the outcome of their respective immigration proceedings. "This program was abused by the previous administration to admit hundreds of thousands of poorly vetted illegal aliens into the United States," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Thursday in a news release. "The Biden administration lied to America," McLaughlin said. "They allowed more than half a million poorly vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela and their immediate family members to enter the United States through these disastrous parole programs." She said the Biden administration gave them "opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers" while forcing career civil servants to promote the programs even after fraud was identified. The Biden administration "then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed," McLaughlin added. She said those affected can use the CBP Home Mobile App to obtain travel assistance and a $1,000 exit bonus upon arrival in their home countries. The self-deport notices started going out on the same day that the House of Representatives approved a measure ending the District of Columbia's Sanctuary Values Amendment Act, the Washington Post reported. The House voted 224-194 to require the nation's capital to comply with federal immigration laws, requests for information on individuals' respective immigration status and lawful detainer requests. Eleven Democrats voted with Republicans to approve the resolution.
UPI
a day ago
- Politics
- UPI
Trump administration advises 500,000 migrants to self-deport
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday began notifying more than 500,000 people that their temporary protected status is revoked and advising them to self-deport. File Photo by Anna Rose Layden/UPI | License Photo June 12 (UPI) -- People from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on Thursday began receiving notices of termination of their temporary protected status. They were told to self-deport. The Department of Homeland Security used email to send the TPS termination notices to inform more than 500,000 affected people that the parole and work authorizations granted by the Biden administration have been revoked with immediate effect, CBS News reported. Those who have not obtained other lawful immigration approvals are encouraged to self-deport. The Supreme Court on May 30 upheld the Trump administration's cancellation of the TPS status for the affected people, which the Biden administration first used in 2022. The program granted protected status for those from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela while they awaited the outcome of their respective immigration proceedings. "This program was abused by the previous administration to admit hundreds of thousands of poorly vetted illegal aliens into the United States," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Thursday in a news release. "The Biden administration lied to America," McLaughlin said. "They allowed more than half a million poorly vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela and their immediate family members to enter the United States through these disastrous parole programs." She said the Biden administration gave them "opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers" while forcing career civil servants to promote the programs even after fraud was identified. The Biden administration "then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed," McLaughlin added. She said those affected can use the CBP Home Mobile App to obtain travel assistance and a $1,000 exit bonus upon arrival in their home countries. The self-deport notices started going out on the same day that the House of Representatives approved a measure ending the District of Columbia's Sanctuary Values Amendment Act, the Washington Post reported. The House voted 224-194 to require the nation's capital to comply with federal immigration laws, requests for information on individuals' respective immigration status and lawful detainer requests. Eleven Democrats voted with Republicans to approve the resolution.
CNBC
a day ago
- Politics
- CNBC
Trump administration tells 500,000 immigrants to 'self-deport' after revoking protections
The Trump administration began sending termination notices Thursday to about 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. Recipients of the notices from the Department of Homeland Security are encouraged to 'self-deport immediately." The move came two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that DHS can order CHNV participants to leave the country, even as they pursue a lawsuit challenging Trump's revocation of the Biden administration-era program. If immigrants agree to "self-deport" using DHS's Home Mobile App, they will receive travel assistance and a $1,000 bonus upon arrival in their home country. 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. 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." Yet 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. '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. "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. The White House did not immediately reply to a request for additional details about what such an order might look like.
