It was President Joe Biden himself who decided not to extend the humanitarian parole program that his administration implemented two years ago to protect immigrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua from deportation.
The decision was announced by the Biden administration on Friday, leaving more than half a million people vulnerable to being expelled from the United States in the coming months. But humanitarian parole isn’t the only federal program that’s at risk of disappearing soon.
Added to this is the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Together, these three legal safeguards allow around three million immigrants to reside temporarily in the country legally. However, all of these statuses could expire between now and 2026, especially if Donald Trump returns to the presidency. The Republican candidate has promised to eliminate, or at least restrict, the three programs.
A new report shows that up to 2.7 million people could lose protection from deportation during a second Trump administration.
“Many people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and beneficiaries of humanitarian parole and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program could be deported” in the next two years, according to a study published by the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP). ) last week.
Many of these 2.7 million immigrants, whose personal information is already in the hands of the government and whose whereabouts are easier to track than that of irregular immigrants, would be easy targets for the mass deportation that the former president intends to carry out if he returns to the White House.
There are 535,030 DACA beneficiaries in the country, according to the latest figures since June. In September 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would end this program that protects so-called “dreamers” — young people without legal status who came to the United States as children — from deportation.
Although the Supreme Court stopped that decision and upheld the beneficiaries’ protections, a series of appeals and subsequent rulings could bring the program back to the high court later this year, or in 2025. The court, now stacked with a conservative majority that was consolidated by Trump himself, “could leave DACA beneficiaries unprotected from deportation unless they obtain another form of relief or a legal status,” the NFAP emphasizes.
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