This was entirely predictable: the termination of temporary authorizations for persons to reside in the U.S.

DHS terminated effective April 24 the humanitarian parole of many Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.  (Here is the formal decision, here is a new article.) The so-called CHNV program has given refuge to an estimated 532,000 persons.  The administration appears to be counting on self-deportation.

Three of the four countries are subject to U.S. sanctions and one, Venezuela, is being accused of launching a hostile incursion in to the U.S. Basically none of the affected persons can be labelled as criminals — thus el Salvador’s prisons are not a viable way for the administration to get rid of them.

Many will apply for asylum, an action the Administration may have no legal power to deny. A memorandum issued in February seeks to block this avenue. There will be a legal battle which would hold off the effective date until resolution – which could go to the Supreme Court.

These persons had they not been brought in through humanitarian parole would have crossed the Mexican border and applied for asylum.  All of them at this time have U.S. based sponsors. There is a 1.7 million case backlog of asylum cases in immigration court.

Three Republican congressmen from Miami Dade County in the first week of the new administration issued a statement which asks that these persons be protected.