Miami.-President’s measure Donald Trump that revokes the “humanitarian parole” to 532,000 immigrants From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti, as of April 24, it implies that those affected have to make a “very fast decision” to leave the US, but always with due legal orientation to avoid “consequences of life.”
This is suggested by lawyer María Herrera Mellado, specialist in immigration issues, who perceives that the situation for those affected is “quite difficult”, but not for those who are Cuban citizens, who asked for asylum during the year or who have married Americans.
Mellado analyzed the reasons of the measure for Diario Las Americas, as well as the implications and options who have those immigrants who entered with permission of temporary permanence for two years in the US, given by the Biden administration.
Humanitarian parole is a legal figure that “authorizes temporary permit to a person who is inadmissible or not eligible to enter the United States,” according to the United States immigration and citizenship service (USCIS). And “urgent humanitarian reasons or for a significant public benefit” prevail.
End of parole, imaginable measure
The humanitarian permit was created by Biden in 2022 and was revoked by Trump because they “exceeded” the limits of the Federal Law.
For the specialist, the executive decision, which adds to the revocation of the TPS on April 3, is as controversial as imaginable.
“It was expected at any time,” he says. “I think everyone who came with that humanitarian permit of temporary work was aware that at any time he could end, even a Democratic Administration.”
He points out that he was subject to “form and background defects” that generated massive problems and that he also had to denounce.
“There were forms that ignored necessary information, such as why the sponsor or why people deserved that humanitarian permission; they had defects. It also made no sense that the sponsor could be any company or person, without any link with the immigrant.”
Although the forms were improved, then they were suspended by great fraud accusations, he explains.
“Not everyone, even if they come from those countries, deserves international protection, because we talk about people who come here and who have worked for dictatorships and persecute other people.”
Although lawyers and prosecutors claimed in court the problems of illegality could not reverse the situation, so President Trump issued the measure.
Immigrant options
Herrera Mellado says that immigrants to whom the measure imposes “a very fast decision” can have other permanence options, but are complex. “The options will depend a lot on the specific case and the citizenship of the person,” he says.
In the case of Cuban immigrants, he mentions the Cuban adjustment law that establishes that if the person entered Parole or if he was inspected, they could remain in the country and ask for their residence.
Another option is that if the people of any of the four nationalities involved to the extent requested asylum upon arrival, “they have the right to receive their administrative review. That is clear.”
They can also remain in the US married people with Americans. “There is a possibility that if there is already an approved request, the family or the husband can adjust.”
It indicates as the last option the assignment of visa or or t in the case of people who are victims of human trafficking or violent crimes. “But we are seeing cases in which a visa takes three to four years.”
If he is a person with student status, he can stay in the US, depending on whether the university gives him student visa, but if his status ends and does not give him time, he must leave the country and re -enter, ”he says.
Information to decide
According to Herrera Mellado, theCubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Haitians who are in the US with Parole have only one alternative: opt for a voluntary exit and then legally enter, or not to leave and expose themselves to the deportation process.
“If the measure is not compared, they are exposed to deportation, once immigration finds these people without legal status or that they violated or do not comply with the deportation order, and the punishment can be the prohibition of entry to the US from five to 20 years or even for life, depending on whether they incur other minor crimes such as handling a vehicle without a driver’s license.”
The expert also gives a recommendation: to obtain precise information, and not be advised by people who pretend to be lawyers or match their cases to others.
“Not even the lawyers know for sure the immediate consequences of the measure, because the developer regulations have not yet come out. But the affected people must consult the lawyer licensed and show all the documentation since they entered the US, to weigh the consequences, possible penalties or benefits and make a decision.
“They must never be uninformed, because that will affect them for life,” he says.
