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

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Fri 21 Mar 2025 17.38 EDT


Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, in the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration. It will be effective 24 April.

The move cuts short a two-year “parole” granted to the immigrants under former president Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had US sponsors.

Trump, a Republican, took steps to ramp up immigration enforcement after taking office, including a push to deport record numbers of immigrants in the US illegally. 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 20 January executive order.

Trump said on 6 March that he would decide “very soon” whether to strip the parole status from some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the US during the conflict with Russia. Trump’s remarks came in response to a Reuters report that said his administration planned to revoke the status for Ukrainians as soon as April.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/trump-revoke-legal-status-cuban-haitian-nicaraguan

[dem4decades]

1. Hopefully Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio will be gone soon.

[Seinan Sensei]

42. And Elon

And Melania

[dem4decades]

43. I was thinking of Cubans specifically, but am willing to include all the assholes.

[NotHardly]

82. Only 1/2 of Americans killed via Trump's covid response..

This is another national disgrace ... anyone out there with political power gonna do anything other than whine and whimper?

[bluestarone]

2. They have a way to cause MORE HATE

Every fucking day!

[Demovictory9]

3. Venezuelans are gobsmacked..their American community supported Trump

[jrthin]

4. Not a once of sympathy for them. They were joyful at others pain, not thinking it would bite them.

[GreenWave]

80. And other Venezuelans came from Brazil (sic) to a desert in Central Texas (Sic!)

How does that happen unless some billionaire shithead is paying for it to stir up trouble for the Democrats who held the White House?

[mcar]

5. Cuban Americans in SFL love FOTUS

Guess they are about to FO. *

*The no pity doesn't include Haitian, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.

[XanaDUer2]

9. They adore him

I'm from there.

[mcar]

11. Left for Central FL 30 years ago

All the Rs have to say is "socialism!!11" and it seems that the Cuban-American folks fall in line.

[XanaDUer2]

13. I knew many a staunch anti communist

On public benefits

[mcar]

19. I believe it

Ok for me but not for thee.

[LymphocyteLover]

67. and will this move affect their bizarre love for him?

[XanaDUer2]

70. It will per the miami herald

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article299538114.html

[LymphocyteLover]

72. thanks!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Is it that they are shutting the door behind them? Do they consider those revoked Cubans as "illegals"?

[FakeNoose]

18. Many of the Cubans who came after Castro took power

... were illegal because they came in as refugees on their own boats. Our Coast Guard were patrolling the waters for "boat people" and rescued them.

They kept coming in for years through the late 50's and early 60's. Somehow they were allowed to stay and most of them eventually earned citizenship status. Those Cuban-Americans have kept together all these years in South Florida, waiting for a chance to return to Cuba, I guess. What's shocking is that they believed Chump would ever lift a finger to help them.

[erpowers]

59. Wet Feet Dry Feet

I was told that America has a wet Feet dry feet policy with the Cubans. My understanding is that wet Feet dry feet translates to, if a cuban can touch American soil they can stay in America. However, if they are captured on they water they are returned to Cuba.

[rso]

60. Wet feet dry feet

That policy was eliminated some time ago.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

6. THIS vile Racist White Supremacy Trump Regime HATES BROWN PEOPLE

530,000 people

530,000 that are families, workers, house owners, renters,
That are indeed paying property taxes in the USA through their rent or mortgages.

Paying Sales Taxes in USA.

Buying groceries, buying gasoline and paying State gas taxes,

1/2 Million people leaving with hurt the US economy,
Hurt local cities and towns,

There is going to be a lack of workers in the US,
All thanks to Trump

What a total SHIT SHOW.

FACT: THIS vile Racist White Supremacy Trump Regime
HATES BROWN PEOPLE

[YoshidaYui]

48. i wonder how many ASIANS will get deport, on their looks alone

I AM HALF HAWAIIAN!!! DEPORT ME TO THE ISLANDS!!!

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

50. My spouse looks Filipino

Hispanic, but all her long life numerous times she’s been
asked if she is Filipino.

Happened again just a week ago too.

[Bluethroughu]

54. Like Mexico the Spanish conquered them.

I have Filipino neighbors. They are always asked if they are Mexican.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

61. My wife's maternal side....got to New Spain's Tejas in 1718 !!!

One of the VERY FIRST EUROPEANS, female, to come to what became Texas.

I always joke with her….
your New Spain relatives always seemed to have married the wealthy!!

Some of the largest Spanish Land Grants in what is now Texas,
were her family.

Part of the founding family of Laredo.
One of the founding families of what became San Antonio.

Her family was living in what became Texas, speaking Spanish,
Over 100 YEARS before the gringos.

Then the damn gringos arrived, so the illegal immigrants were the gringos.
And the gringos FAILED to learn the language too.
Spanish was the language- -AND the gringos were not only
Illegal immigrants, but gringos usually failed to learn the language too.

😳

[Bluethroughu]

85. That is an awesome American history.

I thought my family was special being here in 1734, but your wife has me beat by almost twenty years!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. But these groups supported trump

These groups were part of the swing of Hispanic voters to trump

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Quite ironic since Drumph's grandfather was deported from Bavaria back to US. Lawrence O'Donnell covered it well.

He never discusses anything about his family being immigrants, does he?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. His mother was off the boat from Scotland.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Yes, but not his Dad's side. Watch Lawrence's piece on it. It is very well researched.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. His paternal side's story (and the draft dodger grandpa) was out from way back when he ran the first time

But I am guessing Lawrence is giving a "refresher".

[Evolve Dammit]

83. The piece was during his first term

[BumRushDaShow]

84. And I watched or more often listened (on the SiriusXM simulcast) to Lawrence

His used to be on before Brian Williams, who did that "final" show at night, before he went bye bye and Stephanie Ruhle took that slot.

I wish he was on earlier (I am not a night owl but a robin). although I know segments of his shows are usually posted here the next day and are available online.

There were a bunch of articles back then too about his father's family and his father Fred, and some go back decades (to the early '80s, notably the NYT long form exposes, since 45 is a NYer)!

[2naSalit]

15. This is it, kids...

When they run out of those people they'll be attacking us more.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. The clue for that was this new jumping up and down on the third rail of targeting Cubans

Will have to see how FL reacts.

[XanaDUer2]

20. Exactly

This will be interesting

[IronLionZion]

38. Yup, Social Security and Cubans. That should make a difference in Florida

but Florida will be Florida so we never know. Maybe if he denies them aid after the next hurricane.

[BluenFLA]

21. The leopards are feasting!

Feel bad for the Haitians but all those MAGA Cubans and Venezuelans who partied and celebrated Trump? Hell no!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Got to make room for 67,000 South African racists

[orangecrush]

53. This

[Shoonra]

23. There's a little problem about the Cubans ....

The first generation of Cubans who came (as "exiles", rather than refugees), in the 1960s, were intent on retaking the island of Cuba and many of them acquired serious armament for that purpose - not just assault rifles but even artillery. That stuff doesn't melt away. It's still in grandpa's attic. The rising generation of Cubans were less inclined to combat, but protecting their countrymen from Orange Hitler might be sufficient provocation to use grandpa's weaponry against US immigration officers.

[LymphocyteLover]

68. should be interesting... hopes and prayers...

[Rebl2]

24. Wonder

how Marco Rubio feels about that.

[4catsmom]

25. so all Latin American?

is it a skin color thing?

[Initech]

27. Yes. The orange thin skinned mad man sitting in a position of power he doesn't belong in.

[MichMan]

58. It's because they all fall under the Temporary Protected Status program

Nearly all of the countries that are designated that way are in Latin America

TPS by definition was intended to be temporary although it has often been extended multiple times in the past. It does not allow for any permanent residency status for those eligible.

[Initech]

26. Fuck this administration!

[AverageOldGuy]

28. Well, that's a relief

Now our dogs and cats will no longer go into the stew pot.

[mountain grammy]

29. So he campaigned on removing 11 million

people here illegally but he first has to take on those here legally cause they’re not criminals??? Very confusing.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. He doesn't think anything Biden did was "legal" since he is still convinced he won in 2020

So he's starting with this group that Biden gave protected status to.

[IronLionZion]

40. Because they are easier to find

It's always like this. Law abiding people are easier to find than the ones who are hiding from the law.

[Tootbsb]

31. It's their reward for supporting him.

Can’t sympathize.

[AloeVera]

46. They would not have voted. They are not citizens nt

Your lack of sympathy is irrelevant to these people who have already gone through stuff the average American can't even fathom.

[Tootbsb]

49. Women dying in parking lots by the hundreds would beg to differ.

Also see:
Man selling singles on the corner.
Boy walking with skittles.
Woman sleeping in her bed.
Man jogging.
People shopping
Children attending school in this country for the last 25 years.

[AloeVera]

57. I get it. Well done.

Minorities and women in this country have suffered. If you feel for them, as you obviously do, it shouldn't be hard to extend that empathy to others who have suffered and now live in fear and dread, all hopes dashed.

[Tootbsb]

75. This.

https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-its-time-for-intolerance?r=53s37c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

[AloeVera]

78. I don't think you reached the right conclusion from this:

I will not partner with terrorism and I refuse to make peace with white supremacy and I will not cooperate with fascists.

[Tootbsb]

79. So now you know what I think better than me.

lol.

[AloeVera]

81. "It's their reward for supporting him. Can't sympathize".

Perhaps you forgot the sarcasm emoji?

[58Sunliner]

65. LOL.....

[Botany]

32. Attn: Cubanos y Haitians y Nicaraguans

Who voted for Trump be careful of those face
eating leopards.
BTW classic third Reich stuff get a group that
can be hated.

[BeneteauBum]

33. Many of the 530,000...

were under the age of 18, children brought into the US by the Biden’s administration’s sponsorship program. To deport these kids after given the opportunity to escape the hardships of their country is unconscionable.
Peace ☮️

[AloeVera]

47. Each of those children now living in dread and fear.

It is unconscionable and incredibly cruel. Thank you for speaking up and showing them empathy. In a thread like this, it's a breath of fresh air on behalf of humanity.

[FSogol]

34. Awkward! How long until someone stabs Marco Rubio?

[Buddyzbuddy]

35. How you like him now, Florida?

[DinahMoeHum]

37. Faces are back on the menu, boys and girls!

[Mountainguy]

39. Not sure why they are surprised.

But we have to make sure this move hurt Republicans in FL and TX especially.

[IronLionZion]

41. My sympathies are only for the ones who supported Harris and/or opposed Trump

Trump supporters can go f themselves.

[58Sunliner]

66. They can't vote, they have temp status, not citizens. Many are children.

[IronLionZion]

69. That's why I wrote "support" instead of "vote"

One does not have to be a US citizen to talk to friends, family, community groups, social media, attend rallies, register voters, knock on doors, etc.

There are plenty of mixed households where some members are US citizens and some are not.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

44. Not his to revoke.

Especially a traitor. Go back to Russia where you belong.

[xuplate]

45. Sigh

So it is the fault of all that paperwork that so many people have not been deported as promised. Put Elon on it.

[ancianita]

51. It's all evil, but that last paragraph is downright upsetting. Ukrainians? Where would he deport them to?

Some extra-jurisdictional corporate concentration camp?

[Aussie105]

52. I don't get it!

Where, in all the verbal sewage and word salads Trump has spewed over the years, has anyone found anything resembling a positive promise if their vote went for Trump?

Did people mistranslate, or hear things he didn't say?

If things keep going like this, it will become obvious America is heading for a 'Whites only should live here' future.

Not that many decades ago Australia had a 'whites only' immigration policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy

[Figarosmom]

55. That will end up closing down

Many factories and businesses.

[erpowers]

56. The Cubans

How do all those Cubans who voted for Donald Trump feel? I am certain this would not be happening, especially to the Cubans, despite the fact that they so greatly opposed Democrats. There are a large number of people paying a price for voting for Donald Trump. Many people's lives would have been better if they had voted for Kamala Harris. Hopefully they will learn a lesson this time.

[DENVERPOPS]

62. These constant threats

released like clockwork every day......most are designed to cause us to live in total chaos, and to give the Republican owned Media something to print or broadcast in their media, while the RepubliCONs work in the background, in shadows to do the real devious shit..

[Deminpenn]

87. The Joe McCarthy/HUAC playbook

provides the blueprint.

[Initech]

63. I'd rather just get rid of him, nothing of value would be lost!

[58Sunliner]

64. Sick, sadistic, po.....Why are people assuming these people with TEMP status can vote??

Or that they supported Trump?? WTF. This is horrible. These people are sponsored. They have lives here now. Many are children.

[Trueblue Texan]

71. Cuban Americans and members of the Latin community who voted for TSF...

How do you like him now?

[milestogo]

73. Why is he so full of hate?

What a horrible person he is.

[The Wizard]

74. Agent Orange has it in for

immigrants with a better natural tan than he has from a spray can. The bigotry, it burns.

[JohnnyRingo]

76. he would decide "very soon".....

So he's waiting to hear from Stephen Miller?
At least they're white so they do have a chance.

[BumRushDaShow]

77. "At least they're white so they do have a chance."

He'll use them as hostages to extract ransom from Zelenskyy as he and Putin negotiate about how to divide up the country and its resources.

[Seasider]

86. His mass deportation was always a b.s bait and switch tactic

He was always gonna go after immigrants of legal status because they’re easier targets than someone undocumented. Next they’re going to try denaturalize U.S citizens.