The United States has said it is terminating the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, giving them weeks to leave the country.
President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history and curb immigration, mainly from Latin American nations.
The order affected around five hundred and thirty-two thousand (532,000) Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who came to the United States under a scheme launched in October 2022 by Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden and expanded in January the following year.
They will lose their legal protection thirty (30) days after the Department of Homeland Security’s order is published in the Federal Register, which is scheduled for Tuesday.
That means immigrants sponsored by the program “must depart the United States” by April 24th unless they have secured another immigration status allowing them to remain in the country, the order says.
