SAN DIEGO, CMC – The San Diego, California-based Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) has “unequivocally” condemned US President Donald Trump’s resolution to terminate the authorized standing of greater than 500,000 Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan, and Nicaraguan migrants admitted below the Biden administration’s humanitarian parole program, popularly referred to as the CHNV program.
The US Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) on Friday stated it could formally finish this system on April 24, giving the migrants a few month earlier than they face deportation.
“This isn’t coverage—it’s premeditated cruelty, rooted in white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and xenophobia,” Guerline Jozef, government director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, instructed the Caribbean Media Company (CMC) on Saturday.
She famous that the CHNV program, initiated in 2023, was designed “to supply a short lived haven to migrants fleeing authoritarian regimes, financial collapse, and political violence—circumstances usually worsened by US interventionism and neoliberal insurance policies.”
As of February 2025, Jozef stated over 500,000 nationals from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua had been authorized below this authorized pathway.
“The revocation of their standing will not be solely a direct assault on immigrant households however a transparent sign that the Trump administration is doubling down on authoritarianism and ethnic cleaning,” she stated, stating that, throughout his marketing campaign, Trump referred to those migrants as “’ poisoning the blood of our nation’s—language that echoes Twentieth-century fascist regimes.
“Let’s be clear: this can be a warfare on poor, Black and Brown individuals who dared to hunt security,” Jozef added. “These households have adopted the foundations. Now, they’re being instructed they’re not welcome as a result of Trump desires to rally his base with racist fear-mongering.
“We remind the general public that the CHNV program has been life-saving,” she continued. “Almost all its beneficiaries had been vetted, sponsored, and admitted legally.”
Jozef stated terminating this program is “not simply an immigration rollback—it’s an orchestrated effort to unleash ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement company), tear aside households, and criminalize the very existence of individuals of shade on US soil, in step with the company of Undertaking 2025 (the Conservative coverage agenda).”
Josef, due to this fact, referred to as on Democrats and Republicans to “publicly denounce this transfer, defend the CHNV program, and take legislative motion to guard these in danger.
“Silence is complicity,” she declared. Trump’s order applies to about 532,000 nationals from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua who migrated to the US in October 2022.
DHS Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated on Friday that these immigrants will lose their authorized standing on April 24, or 30 days after the order is printed within the Federal Register.
