United States: the legal status of 500,000 Latin American migrants revoked

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The legal status of more than 500,000 Latin American migrants has been dismissed, the US administration announced.

The decision concerns approximately 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who arrived in the United States as part of a program launched by the previous American president, Joe Biden.

Migrants benefiting from this program “must leave the United States” by April 24, unless they have obtained another immigration status allowing them to stay in the country, the Department of Internal Security underlined.

This program allowed entry to the United States for two years for a maximum of 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela due to the human rights situation in these countries.

More than two years after the launch of the program, the American administration said that the initiative had not achieved its objectives, was tainted with fraud and was no longer necessary.

The American president, Donald Trump, had promised to carry out the greatest campaign to expulsion from migrants in the history of the country and to limit immigration.