Biden migrant parole program

President Joe Biden let in half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans using a tool known as humanitarian parole. President-elect Donald Trump appears certain to dismantle it, saying during his campaign that he would end the ‘outrageous abuse of parole.’

Recent social media posts claimed that migrants can use an app to get free flights to the U.S. People granted parole do not receive free flights to the U.S. They buy their own plane tickets.

The Biden administration has allowed more than one million people without visas to live and work in the United States temporarily into the U.S. over the past three years under an authority called humanitarian parole, including Cubans, Venezuelans and Haitians. Now the program is at the heart of a battle in Congress.

The federal program admits 30,000 people a month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. But as President Biden closes in on a deal on border security and Ukraine funding, whether to preserve his authority to allow migrants into the U.S. during emergencies or global unrest is a sticking point.

A year-long tribute to the hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants arriving in South Florida over the last 50 years was concluded with a moving ceremony in Little Haiti this week, at a pivotal time for the Biden humanitarian migrant parole program.

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Amaury Pacheco's work in the Cuban independent arts scene put him in the crosshairs of the Communist government. Now, he's building a new life in Miami under the Biden administration's historic humanitarian parole program.

El trabajo de Amaury Pacheco en la escena artística independiente cubana le puso en el punto de mira del gobierno comunista. Ahora, está construyendo una nueva vida en Miami gracias al histórico programa de proceso probatorio de la administración de Biden.

Haitians are facing long wait times and extortion as they try to obtain passports so they can apply for the Biden administration humanitarian parole program. Their loved ones here in South Florida are victims, too.

Ayisyen pase anpil tan ap tann epi yo fè fas a rakèt pandan y ap eseye jwenn paspò pou yo kapab aplike nan pwogram akèy imanitè kondisyonèl administrasyon Biden nan. Fanmi pwòch yo isit nan Sid Florid viktim tou.

Organizaciones locales que ofrecen servicios legales y sociales dicen que las estafas de pasaportes y los retrasos en el programa del proceso probatorio de la administración de Biden están haciendo su trabajo más difícil y las vidas de los haitianos más estresadas.