Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued a directive stating that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will begin to phase out any programs that were created using DHS’s parole authority. DHS states that this action will “end[ ] the broad abuse of humanitarian parole and return[ ] the program to a case-by-case basis. ICE and CBP will phase out any parole programs that are not in accordance with the law.”
This is one of DHS’s first steps in implementing the directive issued in the “Securing Our Borders” Executive Order, which orders the ending of the parole program set up by the Biden administration that allowed migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (known as the CHNV program) to come to the United States to pursue their immigration cases if they were sponsored by someone in the United States, as well as other parole programs, including the end of the CBP One phone app, which allowed persons to make initial appointments and file their claims for humanitarian protection with immigration officials.