In this aerial view, Mexican immigration officials and police escort deportees after they were sent back into Mexico on Jan. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on his first day in office declaring a state of emergency at the U. The Thursday memo from U. That parole conferred a temporary legal status for those immigrants. Such cancellation could throw those immigrants into quick deportation proceedings β which is now possible with the separate reinstatement of a policy this week known as expedited removal.
President Donald Trump, who campaigned in on a pledge to enact mass deportations, oversaw that policy in his first administration. Under expedited removal, immigrants without authorization anywhere in the country who encounter federal enforcement must prove they have been in the United States continuously for more than two years.
If they cannot produce that proof, they will be subject to a fast-track deportation without appearing before an immigration judge. It was limited to miles from the southern border and applied to immigrants without authorization who had to prove they had been in the country for more than 14 days. Immigration experts said the speed of expedited removal can put numerous people at risk, even U. One of those parole programs that could fall under the Thursday memo is the CBP One app, through which nearly 1 million appointments have been made with U.
Those who used the app and have been in the United States for less than two years could face a fast deportation. Another is the initiative through which roughly , people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti were allowed to work and live in the United States. It could also potentially include those from Ukraine who received parole. Trump has often criticized the use of the programs, and on Monday he signed an executive order to end parole for Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti, along with shutting down the CBP One app.
That means those immigrants who were part of those programs are left potentially vulnerable to expedited removal. Because those in the parole program have to give so much information to be approved, DHS can easily find them and prioritize them for removal, Bush-Joseph said. The memo followed a separate directive from Huffman on Thursday to expand immigration enforcement abilities to several law enforcement offices within the Department of Justice, such as the U.
