Trump moves to end refugee resettlement and parole for Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans

Michael Wilner, Miami Herald on Jan 20, 2025

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sign a flurry of executive actions on immigration in his first hours in office, suspending refugee resettlement, reinstating a policy requiring migrants at the U.S. southern border to remain in Mexico while they await their court appearances and terminating a parole program that provided another legal pathway to entry for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.

The CHNV parole program had provided over 1 million applicants throughout the Biden administration a sort of “digital queue,” called the CBP One app, that allowed them to request immigration appointments electronically — an attempt to dissuade them from arriving in person at the border for processing. Trump has terminated the CBP One app, as well, effective immediately, his administration said.

Both the CHNV and “Remain in Mexico” programs have been the subject of years of litigation, which is likely to continue as Trump takes office.

In his inaugural address, the president said he would send troops to the U.S. southern border “to repel the disastrous invasion of our country,” and would designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. According to U.S. Border Patrol, the number of attempted border crossings in December were at their lowest since 2019.

The new White House also said in a statement that the president would be “suspending refugee resettlement, after communities were forced to house large and unsustainable populations of migrants, straining community safety and resources.”