Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans


&NewLine;<p>WASHINGTON &lpar;Reuters&rpar; -U&period;S&period; President Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530&comma;000 Cubans&comma; Haitians&comma; Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States&comma; according to a Federal Register notice on Friday&comma; the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It will be effective April 24&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The move cuts short a two-year &&num;8220&semi;parole&&num;8221&semi; granted to the migrants under former President Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had U&period;S&period; sponsors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump&comma; a Republican&comma; took steps to ramp up immigration enforcement after taking office&comma; including a push to deport record numbers of migrants in the U&period;S&period; illegally&period; He has argued that the legal entry parole programs launched under his Democratic predecessor overstepped the boundaries of federal law and called for their termination in a January 20 executive order&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump said on March 6 that he would decide &&num;8220&semi;very soon&&num;8221&semi; whether to strip the parole status from some 240&comma;000 Ukrainians who fled to the U&period;S&period; during the conflict with Russia&period; Trump&&num;8217&semi;s remarks came in response to a Reuters report that said his administration planned to revoke the status for Ukrainians as soon as April&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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