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Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald J. Trump has re­voked the hu­man­i­tar­i­an pa­role pro­gramme, known as the CHNV pro­gramme, for peo­ple from Haiti, Cu­ba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

“This de­ci­sion will cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly end the pro­tec­tion and le­gal sta­tus of 530,000 peo­ple who ar­rived in the Unit­ed States un­der pa­role sta­tus,” said Mu­rad Awawdeh, pres­i­dent and chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the New York Im­mi­gra­tion Coali­tion (NY­IC).

He said the CHNV pro­gramme al­lowed qual­i­fied na­tion­als from these coun­tries to live and work in the US through spon­sor­ship by a US cit­i­zen or per­ma­nent res­i­dent for two years.