The Supreme Court's ruling enables the Trump administration to terminate the Biden-era CHNV humanitarian parole program immediately, threatening the legal status of about half a million migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela. Among those affected is Orlando Valecillos, a 71-year-old Venezuelan, who fears deportation before a crucial surgery. Activists warn that this decision creates chaos for migrants in South Florida, many of whom were using the program to legalize their status under U.S. immigration law, increasing uncertainty about their future amid ongoing legal challenges.
"I hope I won't be deported before my surgery," Valecillos, who lives in Homestead, told the Miami Herald. "I've had serious prostate issues, and treatment only began after we arrived in the U.S."
The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to lift a lower court order that protected immigrants coming through the Biden-era parole program from being potentially deported.
Activists, lawyers and elected officials warned Friday of chaos and devastation to come after a Supreme Court decision upended the lives of half a million migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela.
The program is known as CHNV, for the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans protected under the Biden administration policy.
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