MIAMI:- Blas Núñez-Neto, Acting Undersecretary for Border Policy and Immigration of the Department of Homeland Security, assured the Telemundo network that: “from Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti since January 6, more than 1,700 individuals have already entered the US using the process.” of Humanitarian Parole. However, this figure is far from the promised 30,000 monthly tickets.
Some 1,400 Cubans have entered the United States with the new humanitarian parole program announced by the Government of that country on January 5, The New York Times published.
The number of Cubans who have entered the US under parole is five times greater than the number of Haitians who have done so (280) and almost 35 times more than the number of Nicaraguans (44) who have entered US territory through this route. in the same period.
The “internal data” to which The New York Times had access also reflects that approximately 14,700 Venezuelans have entered US territory since October 18, 2022, when the Joe Biden government implemented the program for Venezuelan nationals.
Meanwhile, it emerged that approvals for minors are being delayed. Although it is necessary to emphasize that not all minors qualify.
In an interview with Univisión 23, Angel Leal’s lawyer maintained that: “The other question is if he has a mother or father residing in the United States who could accompany him to travel to the United States, would the minor qualify, I analyzed it with a colleague (immigration attorney José Guerrero) and we determined no because technically we consider that this minor must be traveling with a mother or father or legal guardian who is participating in this same humanitarian parole program,” said Leal, who nevertheless He clarified that he continues to ask for clarifications and investigate this issue further.
For the program parole humanitarian implemented by the Biden administration will remain fully operational, despite the rumors that arose from the lawsuit filed by 20 US states, at least until April 25, when a federal court of Texas discuss the arguments in a lawsuit filed against you by 20 red states.
According to an order of the Court for the Southern District of Texas, the demand by state prosecutors to suspend the humanitarian parole initiative will have an initial hearing on April 25, at 2 pm, before federal judge Drew B. Tipton, appointed by the President Donald Trump in February 2020, and that he must determine whether to temporarily halt the program pending a final decision on the lawsuit.
However, any decision should not annul the cases that have been approved or are in process to receive the parole, but would close the applications from the moment of the judicial ruling.
The attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming signed the document.
State attorneys general have reacted this way to the announcement earlier this month by the Biden government to accept 30,000 migrants a month from Venezuela, CubaNicaragua and Haiti, thus expanding a program that already existed for Venezuelans since October 2022.
Among the defendants are Alejandro Mayorkas, DHS secretary; Ur Jaddou, director of the Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS); Troy Miller, Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP); and Tae Johnson, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“The power of the DHS parole is exceptionally limited, as it has been restricted by Congress on multiple occasions, and can only be used on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,” the text states.
Despite the restrictions, the signatory Republican states argue that “the DHS plan allows aliens in their countries of origin to obtain advance authorization to enter the United States, despite the fact that there is no other legal basis for it.”
The fundamental claims of the lawsuit as a request for relief are:
Suspend, postpone or preliminarily prohibit the implementation of the parole program.
Following a trial on the matter, it is ruled that the parole program was issued in violation of administrative due process and, therefore, it must be annulled or, in the alternative, permanently bar the defendants from implementing it.
Declare that the parole program exceeds the defendants’ statutory authority to issue it.
Award the Claimant States their attorneys’ fees and court costs.
Grant the claimant States all other remedies to which they may be entitled.