President Joe Biden’s government announced that it will not extend the temporary legal status of tens of thousands of migrants, including Nicaraguans who entered the United States through a sponsorship or humanitarian parole program, implemented by the Biden administration to regulate the flow. of migrants on the southern border.
The program that allows migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti to enter legally and by air, in addition to residing in the country for a period of two years, begins to expire next January. However, according to official sources, those who fail to regularize their situation before their residence permit expires must return to their country or be deported.
The sponsor, who is in charge of monitoring the migrant, could be sanctioned by the National Immigration Service and the Department of Homeland Security of the United States for keeping the beneficiaries within the country irregularly after the deadline has expired, unless they choose to apply for asylum or obtain residency through marriage.
Until now, the North American government has not indicated whether the humanitarian parole will be extended in 2025.
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«Those who do not have pending immigration benefits, or have not been beneficiaries of any immigration process during their period of parole“They must leave the United States or may be subject to removal procedures,” a spokesperson for the United States Department of Homeland Security told Telemundo.
The measure of not extending the period of stay for those who benefit from parole coincides with others taken by the Democrats in the face of the increase in criticism made by Republican Donald Trump, who will face Kamala Harris next November, in the candidacy for the presidency of the United States, and one of the thorniest issues is, precisely, migration.
Trump promised his followers to deport all irregular migrants and even called Haitian migrants, many of whom benefited from parole, “pet eaters” (without evidence) during his speeches in which he reproached Biden and Harris for allowing entry. of thousands of undocumented immigrants.
Since October 2022, 1.3 million immigrants have arrived legally through humanitarian parole, of which about 100,000 are Nicaraguans.
