Half of Immigrant Parolees Told to Leave US Sought Legal Status

Nearly 70,000 immigrants admitted to the US through a Biden-era parole program targeted by the Department of Homeland Security had pending asylum claims before the agency froze new benefits.

Almost 60,000 parolees from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela applied for green cards while another 136,000 filed for relief known as Temporary Protected Status before new benefits were blocked in February, according to court filings in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s termination of the “CHNV” program.

Altogether, about half of the roughly 500,000 parolees admitted through the CHNV program now facing possible deportation applied for the benefits. Others have been ...